Growth of College Sports in the West Gains Steam
Chicago reports that the Big Ten and Missouri Valley conferences drive rising interest in western college sports. Their similar administration and booming athletic rosters, with over 100000 collegiate participants last year, spur broader student involvement and a push to enroll full student bodies in athletics.
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Chicago
West
Middle West
Western Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Big Ten
Mississippi
Missouri Valley Conference
Big River
Pacific Northwest Conference
Pacific Coats
Big Nine
Oklahoma
Grinnell
Nebraska
Stolen Ring Found Hidden in Toothpaste Tube
In Fredericksburg Virginia Detective Sergeant Robert Livingston of Washington DC police recovered a $500 diamond ring from a toothpaste tube opened at the bottom. The ring allegedly came from Clarence Beall of Washington and was tied to a Mount Vernon Pike robbery near Alexandria by a bandit who gave the name James Williams. Williams was arrested on the charge of robbing Beall of a new Stutz car and the ring. A clothing search yielded no further clues until the toothpaste tube was inspected.
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Fredericksburg
Robert Livingston
Metropolitan Police Force
Washington
D. C
Clarence Beall
James Williams
Williams
Beall
Mount Vernon Pike
Alexandria
Pageant planned for Red Cross meet in Columbus
Work is proceeding rapidly on a pageant of the Red Cross to be staged at the national convention in Columbus October 4 to 8. The show will trace the development of the Red Cross with the spirit of humanity as the outstanding figure. A cast of 1300 and chorus of 1000 are planned. The convention will present the American Red Cross peace time program with leading authorities from home and abroad. A long speaker list includes top figures in the country. The third day is set for reunions of nurses canteen workers motor hospital corps camp service and production workers along with sectional conferences.
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Columbus
Red Cross
the Red Cross
Spirit of Humanity
American Red Cross
Tahiti Island fete day customs and festival
Tahiti notes that July celebrations center on the festival of the 14th, France’s national day. The article describes how horse racing wheels of fortune target shooting and cinema have displaced native pastimes, with earlier years reviving picturesque local customs during the holiday.
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Papeete
Tahiti
France
South Seas
Festive fete shrinks to district singing and dancing contests
The festival has become merely perfunctory in recent years with singing and dancing contests limited to town districts. They last a single evening and morning while the remaining six or seven days are filled with fairground entertainment resembling an American county fair.
Prohibition Raid Ends in Death Near Hazlehurst
Federal agents raided J. M. Bland's plant two miles from Hazlehurst Georgia. Bruce Kirby died after buckshot punctured intestines in the raid. J. M. Bland charged with illicit distilling and Allie Moore a 15 year old girl charged as a peon age was taken to Savannah as a material witness.
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Hazlehurst
Prohibition
J. M. Bland
Bruce Kirby
Allie Moore
Savannah
Cotton Consumed in August Falls Slightly From Year Ago
Washington reports August cotton use at 467103 bales of lint and 50871 linters, down from 483560 bales of lint and 49412 linters a year earlier per the census bureau.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Woman Directs State Budget in Nebraska Welfare System
Miss Katherine F. Worley chairs Nebraska's state board of control overseeing 18 penal charitable and corrective institutions with a 5 million dollar biennial budget. She assigns officials, guides Americanization work, runs a home clipping bureau, and leads welfare and juvenile programs in Omaha.
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Lincoln
Neb
Katherine F. Worley
Nebraska
State Board of Control
Omaha
Snowfall Delays Wheat Threshing in Alberta Region
A five inch snowfall in Leathbridge Alberta on September 14 halted wheat threshing across the area. Harvest had ended in the storm zone with cutting of the crop already finished.
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Snow Halls
Leathbridge
Alberta
Power consumption concentrated east of the Rockies
Nearly eighty percent of the nation's electric light and power is consumed east of the Rockies, highlighting regional disparities in energy use and infrastructure.
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Rockies
Ironized Yeast A Vitamin Tonic With Iron Claim
An advertisement promotes Ironized Yeast as a convenient tablet form combined with iron to boost vitality. It claims superior brewer's yeast vitamins address run down health, nervousness, weight loss, skin issues, and fatigue. Each 10 day package costs $1.00. Sold by druggists nationwide from the Ironized Yeast Company of Atlanta, Ga.
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Ironized Yeast Company
Atlanta
Evening Schools For Foreign Born Volunteer Court Worker
A report notes the establishment of about a dozen evening schools for the foreign born and highlights considerable volunteer court work performed by the individual.
Parole Granted for Ex-Assistant Cashier Cabel Scott
Cabel Scott former assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Bristol was released from a federal penitentiary in Atlanta after serving two years for embezzling 52000. His parole followed protests from Bristol bank officials directed to Attorney General Daugherty.
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Bristol
Va.Tenn
Cabel Scott
First National Bank of
Atlanta
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Scott
Nebraska Officials Map State by Air Tours
Nebraska officials plan a pictorial map project using airplane flights to chart the state's geographic features and locations from the air, aiming to produce a visual guide for public reference.
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Missouri Valley
GLOBE
Oenibs
ULLAL
Coats
FT Ac
Farley
South Main Street
Cashier
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