Modern Greeks Are Brave Rage and Valor in War
Professor Schurman recalls his Greece mission after the war against Bulgaria. He notes Greece doubled its area and population, crediting King Constantine and Prime Minister Venizelos for military skill and administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schurman
Turkey
Europe
Tehatalja
Black Sea
Vardar
Saloniki
Bulgaria
Western
Macedonia
Greece
Servia
Adrianople
Aegian Sea
Constantine
Venizelos
Marathon
Salamis
Hog and Dog Chums At Sunnyshire Farm
In Guilford Missouri at Sunnyshire Farm the largest Missouri hog, a 700 pound Poland China named A Wonders Equal, stands seven feet five inches long and three feet four inches high. Its gentleness contrasts with a tiny visiting hog that daily leaps onto its back for rides around the lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guilford
Sunnyshire Farm
Here
Missouri
Pacific Drydock to Resume Work at Pearl Harbor
Secretary of the Navy announced Alfred Noble, the New York engineering expert, found the Pearl Harbor drydock project feasible to proceed. The giant dock, costing several million dollars, stalled after coral foundations shifted under pressure, ruining much of the earlier work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pearl Harbor
United States
Pacific
Daniels
Alfred Noble
New York
Giant eel with dog collar captured in Willimantic river
John Balinski of West Warren hauled a 47 inch eel weighing 13 pounds from the Quaboag river below Willimantic. The eel wore a locked dog collar engraved W R C Prince and bore scarred skin from spear wounds. Balinski killed it and planned to feed it to chicks, keeping the collar as a souvenir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willimantic
Conn
John Balinski
West Warren
Quaboag River
Balinski
Prince
Grasshoppers Cause Scaffold Collapse Injury
In Warrensburg Missouri a swarm of grasshoppers chewed through a rope supporting a scaffold thirty feet above a silo being built on Jesse Mohler’s farm. Carpenter Daniel Laughman, seventy, was severely bruised in the fall when the rope collapsed as grasshoppers gathered on it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warrensburg
Daniel Laughman
Jesse Mohler
Laughman
Rab bit Muscle for Her Grafts Leg Injury at Park Crash
Miss Hermita Tovar in critical condition at St Josephs hospital after a roller coaster accident at Electric Park. Her brother Daniel Tovar is in adjoining room with severe head and shoulder bruises. Surgeons plan to graft rabbit foot muscles into her leg to replace torn tissue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Tovar
Kansas City
Miss Hermita Tovar
Lima
Peru
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Electric Park
Daniel Tovar
Plows Up $100 Nugget in Cal. Lawn
Guinda California excitement rose after Lee Wood found a gold nugget worth 100 dollars in his lawn while plowing. The piece measured about four inches long and one and a half inches wide, weighing five ounces, and was sent to a jeweler for assay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guinda
Cal
Lee Wood
Infant weighs 35 pounds six months old in Winsted
The infant child of Thames Finn of Lake Street weighs thirty five pounds at six months and has seven teeth. The father, over six feet tall, believes the baby will grow to be a giant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winsted
Conn
Thames Finn
Lake Street
12000 Miles to Bible Journey From California to Koosy
Mrs. Tarian Michael Daniels of Los Angeles will travel 12000 miles to Koosy in the Kurdish mountains to view the Peshitta testament a sacred Bible surviving persecution. The journey aims to touch upon her mother’s face and to see a book the czar’s wealth could not buy. The Peshitta written in 1922 A D has drawn interest from historians who offered large sums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Koosy
Russia
Los Angeles
Cal
Tarian Michael Daniels
Lake
Urumiah
Gatun Dam and Spillway Described as Engineering Feat
The Gatun dam on the Panama Canal holds back water from Gatun Lake which sits eighty five feet above sea level. It uses a vast amount of cement, surpassing many U S irrigation dams, and features a crescent shape with thirteen large piers two abutments fourteen openings operated by valve gates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatun
Panama Canal
Gatun Lake
United States
Frank defies fate as he runs pencil plant from jail
Atlanta notes that Leo M. Frank, condemned to die for Mary Phagan’s murder, continues to manage the National Pencil Company from jail while a new trial is sought. His wife and mother visit, Dorsey directs detectives seeking new evidence, and a possible appeal to the Supreme Court could delay execution for about a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Leo M. Frank
Mary Phagan
National Pencil Company
Supreme Court
Dorsey
Frank
Rea Frank
Brooklyn
Roan
Wilson to seek Sherman Act strengthening after session
Washington reports there will be no anti trust legislation at the extra session. President Wilson will urge Congress to strengthen the Sherman law after the regular session begins in December. He and advisers will review the act, study its operation and its impact on business, including New Jersey’s seven sisters anti trust laws from his gubernatorial tenure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Wilson
New Jersey
Discover Old Pike From Civil War In Mobile Museum Window
A Civil War weapon known as the Mobile pike is displayed in a Mobile museum window. Made in 1861 with six foot wooden handles and a saddle strap, the pike was devised by Percy Walker and used by the Mobile Pikers to repel attacks. It was presented by Leroy Walter McRae of Calvert, a Mobile Dragoon veteran and Fifty-sixth Alabama Cavalry lieutenant, and crafted by W. A. Alexander of Catherine Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Charles Mohr Society
Mobile Museum
Percy Walker
Leroy Walter McRae
Calvert
Mobile Dragoons
Fifty-sixth Regiment of
Alabama Cavalry
W. A. Alexander
Catherine Street
Mobile Pikers
Pugilist by Night A Student by Day
Chicago born George Howard Lovequest now of Racine Wisconsin boxes to fund law studies at the University of Wisconsin. Known as Young McGann he fights at 133 Marquis of Queensberry while studying Blackstone. He began pro boxing after meeting promoter interest and intends to retire from the ring after graduation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Howard Lovequest
Racine
Wis
Law
University of Wisconsin
Marquis of Queensberry
Blackstone
McGann
Lovequest
Wisconsin
Peter McGann
Britt
Oregon
Poll of Farmers' Wives Seeks Farm Needs Feedback
Secretary David F. Houston sends letters to 50,000 farm households asking farm women to suggest how the Department of Agriculture can serve them better. Copies go to about twenty farms in each of 2,800 counties, with replies expected to reflect views of more than 500,000 farm women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
David F. Houston
Department of Agriculture
United States
Houston
Argentine Corn Import Seeks Tariff Removal for Kansas
Kansas farmers and stockmen urge lifting the tariff on Argentine corn to ease drought damage. Argentine grain could reach Kansas at about ten cents a bushel below local prices, helping feed cattle and other stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toreka
Kan
Kansas
Gold in Chick’s Gizzard in Goldfield Hen Story
In Goldfield Nevada a pullet owned by Mrs. R L Morgan yielded a gold nugget the size of a bean when its gizzard was cut open. The nugget valued at about $2.50 surprised the owner who soon had the chicken prepared for frying. Earlier a hen laid a shell crusted egg and two of the largest eggs ever produced were gifted to their owners by two local fowls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goldfield
Nev
R. L. Morgan
A Glaring One Teacher In the Sentence
A brief school item notes a dialogue about parts of speech. It presents the line The sick boy loves his medicine and asks what part of speech is love in that sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
London
Salmon fishers in Tacoma reap 500 weekly earnings
Tacoma reports the salmon season as highly successful with fishermen averaging $500 per week. In four weeks of fishing, about 2,000,000 cases of salmon valued at $15,000,000 were caught in Puget Sound and British Columbia waters. Tacoma and Gig Harbor boats bring $750,000 worth to Ola Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Jack Anich
Puget Sound
British Columbia
Gig Harbor
Ola Town
Seek smugglers of opium ring unraveling in Chicago
Federal officials pursue an alleged opium selling network after Chicago authorities report a Chinese black book listing sale agencies and notes. Immigration Commissioner Caminetti orders cooperation with police to probe possible violations of exclusion laws and underground Canada routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chicago
United States
Caminetti
Canada
Percy L. Prentis
New York
Ellis Island
Customs Service
Department of Justice
Towanda Girl Aims to Live on Less Than 50 Cents Weekly
Miss Clara Loewus of Towanda Pennsylvania plans to repeat her experiment of living on fifty cents a week for food this fall. After surviving twenty weeks on ten dollars last spring she intends to beat that record by a few cents. Her dietetics trial will be monitored by Cornell University home economics department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towanda
Ithaca
N. Y
Clara Loewus
Ithaca Conservatory of Music
Home Economics
Cornell University
Becomes Father at 88 in Mountain Home
Mountaineer O P Grant of Spartanburg North Carolina area is described as a father at eighty eight when his son L M Grant aged sixty one visited the home. The younger Grant found his father on the porch with a newborn infant he proudly calls his youngest son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartanburg
O. P. Grant
Here
L. M. Grant
Mr. Grant
Unusual jail sentence in Pueblo for memory of Psalm
Pueblo Colorado Municipal Judge Cross sentenced T W Nicholls a labor agent to remain in jail until he commits to memory the Twenty third Psalm. The judge has issued a number of unusual sentences and this set a record for odd decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pueblo
Colo
Crossman
T. W. Nicholls
Friends Plant Crops for Sick Couple in Kansas
In Larned Kansas a community effort plowed 230 acres for Roy and Mrs Connard to aid their fall crops. About 200 horses were used by 40 neighbors who organized into companies with captains to complete the work in one day. The farm near Larned was set to wheat land and sod after weeks of illness prevented planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larned
Kan
Roy Connard
Uncle Billy Hunter Trampled by Blind Steer in Nashville
On the Cumberland river steamboat Henry Harley mate Uncle Billy Hunter aged among the oldest in active service was seriously injured when a blind steer charged and trampled him at Cedar Bluff while cattle were being loaded.
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Nashville
Tenn
Billy” Hunter
Henry Harley
Cumberland River
Cedar Bluff
Hunter
Army appeals for aviation troops to strengthen signal corps
U S Army Signal Corps chief Brigadier General George S Scriven urges Congress to bolster military aviation amid a critical national situation He warns civilian pilots cannot reliably supply needed skilled aviators and cites Panama Canal and Corregidor defenses as urgent priorities The report credits the Signal Corps with years of progress since 1909 and calls for sustained support and funding.
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Washington
George S. Scriven
Army
United States
Congress
Panama Canal
Corregidor Island
Philippines
Signal Corps
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
United States Army
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Jacob Gould Schurman
Antenegro
Sofia
Kilikis
Jacob Goult
Pacific Drydock
Workman
American Press Association
Old Pike
Young McGann
Friends
U.S. Army
Chandler
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