11 Aug 1911
Page 6
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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1911
Page
6
A Chicago Daily News report recounts how residents conceal valuables in beds trunks and furniture. Officers say few store gems in safety vaults, with women hiding jewelry in trunks mattress posts and hollow furniture, often with intricate ropes or false tops to deter theft.
The Duchess of Marlborough's absence from the coronation sparks rumors of a permanent return to the United States. Consuelo Vanderbilt, 16 years in England, endures court banishment amid royal disfavor and whispered battles with her husband.
After 49 years in prison the Calabrian brigand chief Antonio Gatto is released. He began crime at nineteen to avoid arrest after deserting the army and led a famed band based in Monte Gargano near Foggia. They robbed pilgrims and resisted captures until surrender to Major Bixio. Gatto received life hard labor, and his release came through the efforts of an unknown nephew. Prisoners honored him with a blue serge suit.
A false burglar alarm rang at a major London jewelry store when rats scampered over a doormat and wire connections, triggering the bell and lights. Police cordoned the scene as the crowd watched, but investigators found no entry and no theft.
A couple wed atop a thin hill in Los Angeles, under moonlight with about 100 guests. The bride was Eve H Hunter a schoolteacher and the groom Baylies Walker a business man. the ceremony recalled a betrothal two years earlier.
A terse note discusses death being called by a popular name for certain uses and references the term the Great Frost as a historic label.
A scrambled column of clippings notes Judge Crawford for the supreme bench. Reports mention rust affecting North Dakota wheat, a La Kota livery barn fire with a $400 loss, and various editorials. A Neche farmer faces labor law charges, two men buried after an Orient Limited crash, Mortenson jailed for stealing a coat, and Nestos’s rising Attorney General prospects.
President Guy Potter Benton of Miami University Ohio has been unanimously elected by the University of Vermont board of trustees in Burlington to succeed James B Angell and Matthew Henry Bucklam. Benton, who has served nine years at Miami, will depart as the campus grows and funding expands. The Vermont university system includes liberal arts agriculture medicine engineering and commerce with a campus of 300 acres overlooking Lake Champlain.
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