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Newspaper
Keota News
Location
Keota, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
6
Seven people were killed and twelve injured as a tornado wrecked towns. The Burlington railroad added 2,000 workers west of the Missouri to repair box cars for Nebraska wheat traffic. A state tax commission report showed a sharp drop in express company property in Kansas.
President Wilson presented diplomas to the Annapolis Naval Academy graduates. Daniel V. Jauch confessed planting four sticks of dynamite in the Department of Agriculture to gain recognition as a hero and was held for further action.
The University of Washington rowing team left Seattle with a new shell for the Poughkeepsie regatta on June 26. In boxing, Jimmy Clabby lost a disputed twenty round decision to Jeff Smith in Sidney N. Y. The Rocky Mountain conference made a historic showing in Chicago with Lyle Bingham claiming top honors in discus and hammer, and Colorado College Mac Davis finishing high jump runner-up as Carl Cline took third in the 440 and Colorado relay placed second in a record relay.
The report covers royal and diplomatic events including the Earl of Lacan’s death in London, a Paris meeting between Colonel Roosevelt and President Poincare, and a Madrid marriage between Kermit Roosevelt and Belle Willard. It notes a Canadian wreck causing deaths and injuries, and Salvation Army funerals for Empress of Ireland victims.
Reports detail seven injuries and one fatality in a Springfield Missouri train wreck, four hurt from a Greensburg Indiana smash, and four injured by a Canistota South Dakota tornado. Senior physician Dr Amos Mason dies en route to Canada, aged 72. Judge Kenneally loses a New York appeal over William A Kenneally's estate. Westinghouse strike violence occurs at East Pittsburg plant. An electrical storm kills Ras Brown and injures a Rockport Kentucky family. A 14 hour jury deadlock stalls Mae Sullivan vs Arthur Hoe breach suit for 226000.
A young William Jennings Bryan is escorted behind a schoolhouse by an old man who offers him whiskey. Bryan refuses repeatedly, finally urging the audience to do the best they can in the end.
Mrs Madeine Ferola the first woman convicted of murder in the first degree in New York City since 1898 will occupy a death house near the wall. Warden Clancy prepares the house opposite the former keeper Connaughton’s, with three Auburn prison keepers to attend. Ferola killed a man who planned marriage to her and later withdrew. she was convicted on her alleged accomplice’s evidence and her ten year old daughter’s testimony.
When a man marries his stenographer he ceases to dictate to her, signaling a change in professional and personal relations. The anecdote underscores the shift from employer to husband as the narrative center of the source text.
A terse aphorism notes that when action is needed it may be better to apply equal effort with both feet, emphasizing decisive energy and practicality. The line underscores a blunt approach to pursuing a goal without hesitation.
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