Debilitating toll of football turns season deadly
A long report details thirteen deaths and numerous injuries across high school and college football, noting public concern and calls for safer play. It cites Swarthmore, Princeton, Yale, and Columbia as examples amid harsher rules and persistent risks from brain concussions and broken bones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swarthmore
Princeton
Yale
Ative
Stanier Citjes
Tigwe Leen
Mayer Cochrane
Columias
Ind
Gay Fern
Karl Iaddell
Nand Teeeda
Lowell View of Mer a Professor Demonstrates Evolution Theory
The fragment describes Lowell and a professor arguing about evolution, referencing Mars as a key data source and the idea that history of a net shows evolution length proportional to size. It mentions San Francisco fire insurance litigation, a court verdict in 1906, and vast immigrant ships sailing to Europe amid industrial slowdowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowells
der Tronomer
Tury Oon
Lo Lewedh
Lowell
Mars Digs
Besa
Jnsur
San Braney
Jude van Vleer
Tea, Willard & Co
Wil-lamshers City Fire Insurance Company
Aliens Return to Homeland Amid Record Emigration
Reported figures claim up to AGO 060 aliens will have returned to native lands before winter, with totals near S160 400 000. Many laborers from Italy travel to Europe in fall for rail and mining work, then return when frost halts activity. The panic increases travel and may affect next year’s migration and labor shortages, as stories of hard times abroad shape European sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stesuisnip
New York
Europe
Tate
Italy
America
sweeping dietary ends church power with anticclericals rise
A sweeping, satirical summary of global upheavals as anticclerical forces sweep dietary away from church temporal power, with scattered reports of financial turmoil, diplomatic exchanges, and imminent battles across continents. Notable items mention Rio Janeiro honors, Mexican court verdicts, and Moroccan bandit Raisuli negotiations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nome
Sor- Mesa
Pennessee
Washington
Vangyard
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Kurdish raids plunder Armenian villages across Asia Minor
Reports from Erzerum Bitlis Van Kharput and Diarbker show Kurdish forces under Abraham Dasha looting and burning sixteen villages and targeting Armenian and Mesepin communities. Hunger rises as famine looms while missions plead for aid and autonomy gains simmer amid regime support and Turkish troop actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantianople Advicrs
Armeno-Nurdish
Er2erum
Bitlis
Van
Kharput
Diarhkin
Praraeti
Abraham Dasha
Ierdistan
Dribekir
Jeghreb-YbuwOmar
Sert
Rebuilding of San Francisco's Chinatown After Fire
A historical note on the rapid revival of San Francisco Chinatown after the disaster, as Chinese property owners refused to sell, financed reconstruction with cash from abroad, and required adherence to city laws. The new district rises near Nob Hill, touching the Gink district, while efforts to move residents failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Proncisco
Chinatown
Chinktown
Nob Hill
Tina Gink
Velosmupl Pht
Mission District
Market Street
San
New York
San Francisco
Pbuilding Department
Consolidation Fight in Pittsburgh and Allegheny City
The battle over consolidating Pittsburgh and Allegheny City reached the Supreme Court, which sustained the Pennsylvania court ruling upholding the consolidation. The merged city would cover 38 square miles with about 260,000 residents and contend with Boston for the sixth largest U S city by population, a claim also made by Baltimore.
Conscription or higher pay debated by Army officers
Major General F C Ainsworth urges conscription if enlistment cannot rise, warning the army may need to raise pay or resort to compulsory service. War Dept officials weigh pay bills while the inland waterways commission reports on Mississippi river transport and lakes-to-gulf plans, plus hunting and game laws in Ohio Kentucky and Indiana outline licenses and bag limits amid season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
F. C. Ainsworth
War Department
Ainsworth
Europe
Adins Wortis
Congress
Inland Waterways Comission
Washington
Lakes
Gulf” Channel
Mississippi River
Commissioner of Fisheries and Game
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
States
Miners Congress Opens In Joplin With Mines Cabinet Call
Gov Polk addressed the Miners Congress opening in Joplin Missouri urging a Department of Mines in the national cabinet. The Aero Club of New England staged in Boston with thirty seven members. The Albert Theater in Berlin Illinois burned interior causing a loss of $100000. The congress also urged national mining cabinet action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Polk
Miners’ Congress
Joplin
The
Aero Club of
New England
Boston
McIchifivers
Albert Theater
Berlin
N. IL
Department of Mines
Embezzlement Case Reopens for John B Walker
John B Walker former Vaniderburg county treasurer faces a new trial in Rockport over a SG6400 embezzlement allegation. The prior trial ended in disagreement and the surety firm refuses to cover the shortage until final court rulings. Walker, once Havansville baseball league president, is noted as a controversial figure amid rumors of losses from speculation and loans to friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Walker
Vaniderburg
Rockport
Walker
Havansville
Railroad Station Agent Robbed by Two Masked Men
A. Hanning, agent at the Evansville Terre Haute station in Sul Tan, was held up at 2:30 AM by two masked men. They tied him with rope, locked him in a box car, and looted $45 from the cash drawer before releasing him. A westbound train crew later found the empty office and alerted authorities. One robber described as tall, the other short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ailroad
A. Hanning
Evansville - Terre Haute
Sultan
Hanning
Apty
Tried acid and river ends two life attempts
Wesley Alsop, 85, a Vin Rnes farmer, drank carbolic acid after a drunkenness fine and saloon visit. He tried to drink again and lunged for the river before police halted him and jailed him to await life conveyance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Alsop
Vinrnnes
Jordan
Alsop
Alsoon
Kruse
Kicked Dead by Horse in Barn Incident
Iles Warner, 60, of Trammond, was found dead in his home barn after a horse, reportedly gifted weeks earlier by his son nicknamed Kid Warner, kicked him. The animal's hoofs crushed his head and caused further barn damage. Mer, owner of a large dry goods store, was a prominent resident and promoter of local theatres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imal
Kid” Warner
Iles Warner
My Picture Theaters
Mer
Trammond
Tragedy as Petersburg Woman Burns in Fire
Mrs Mary Brown aged 50 of Petersburg was smoking a pipe when the pipe fell and ignited her clothing. The flames scorched her garments and destroyed part of her chair before assistance arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Brown
Petersburg
Train Kills Two at Crossing near Greencastle
A fast mail train struck Harry Waters aged 40 and his son Walter Waters aged 22 seven miles east of Greencastle at the village of Almeda, instantly killing both.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Waters
Walter Waters
Greencastle
Vandalia Ou
Almeda
Dogs Save Master from Bull Near Walish
Two large dogs leaped to aid farmer Al Warner after a fierce bull knocked him down and beat his prostrate body near Walish, saving his life in a dramatic rural incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer
al Warner
Walish
Bishop Sues Over Damages From Fontanet Powder Mill
Bishop Chatard sues Wmnpont Towder Company for 85000 damages to St Augustine's church after Fontanet powder mill explosion. Five death claims at 700 each alleged. Evansville reports note a 17 year old whipped by Police Judge J G Winfrey and a boy whipped by his mother. A Ladoga man found dead in bed. two Evansville deaths linked to quarrels. Milton township farm sale for 11000 with 160 acres. Center Point Flora Directors dies from corn shredder injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatard
Wmnpont Towder Company
St. Augustine’s
Fontanet
Cland Wing
J. G. Winfrey
Evansville
Flora
Liler
Fatal shooting during hunting trip near Camden Ohio
Edward Pugh, cashier of the First National Bank of Rushville, was fatally shot near Camden Ohio while returning from a hunting trip. In Shelbyville, a jury found William Smiths guilty of forgery and he faces two to fourteen years in Michigan City penitentiary. Marr's Prairie fire north of Decker burned for hours, destroying valuable timber. a district sawmill was saved with difficulty as untamed swamps and brush were scorched.
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Edward Pugh
First National Bank of
Rushville
Camden
Ohio
Shelbyville
William Smiths
Michigan City
Marr's Prairie
Decker
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