They preferred death to parting on earth romance ends in tragedy
Morristown New Jersey June 31 a farmer found a boy and girl aged 23 and 16 dead in woods near Mount Freedom. An empty morphine bottle lay nearby their hands were clasped and faces peaceful. The couple Robert Maine and Alice Burroughs had loved since childhood, defied family opposition, and died together to avoid living apart. Police took the bodies to Alice's mother Mrs Edward Benjamin.
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Drake university summer school of methods opens Monday
The Drake University summer school of methods begins Monday and runs eight weeks ending August 1s, with a strong slate of instructors from home and abroad. It will be operated directly by the university under a dean, led by Prof. Bell, and expects attendance around six hundred. Courses cover reading, language, elementary science, psychology, history of education, school supervision, hygiene, law, Greek, German, French, physics, geometry, botany, and more.
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School of Methods
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Wiliam Crocker
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Baith
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Maud Clathorne-Reno
Ed Amherst Ott
I Frank Neff
Jessie M. Plaos
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C.D. McGregor
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Saengerfest Crowds Fill Peoria Streets for Picnic Day
Peoria Ill June 21 crowds swell for the Saengerfest with 40 000 expected visitors on trains daily, 6 000 at last night’s concert, and a Coliseum crowd unable to be seated. Tomorrow 6 000 attend a parade as officers are elected with Theodore Behrens of Chicago named president. Milwaukee to host next Saengerfest. Soprano Mine Ragna Linne learns her child dies en route to Chicago after a telegram arrives before her performance. Frost noted in Bloomfield and Maryville with unusually cold June weather.
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