New President Named for State College Washington
The Board of Regents elected Dr. Ernest O. Holland of Louisville Kentucky as president of the State College of Washington succeeding F E A Bryan who retires January 1 1916. Holland, a Indiana University trained educator with strong ties to rural education and industrial schooling, will assume duties shortly after January 1 with formal inauguration planned for mid spring in Pullman.
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Ernest O. Holland
Dr. E. A. Bryan
Board of Regents
State College of Washington
Louisville
Kentucky
Washington Agricultural College
F E. A. Bryan
Indiana
Indiana University
Chicago
Cornell
Columbia University
Dr. Holland
United States
State College
Holland
Pullman
Feeding Experiments At State College Of Washington
An experiment to determine hog feeding value with varying grain mixtures at State College of Washington concludes. Pigs in groups receive green peas and oats with 2 percent barley-wheat tankage yield net gains per acre 14 暂 28.80 46.61 with adjustments for tax costs. Grain priced at $30 per ton and milk at 25 cents per hundred. net returns per acre after deducting grain and milk costs total $33.06.
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State College of Washington
Bell Ringer Reaches 755 Mile Toll At South Bend Church
Charles 8 Schubert has served 17 years as sexton at St Patrick's Catholic church in South Bend Indiana. He pulled the church bell through about 7,900 services equating to 755 miles of rope pulled over the period. He rings twice per service and ten times on Sundays for angelus.
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South Bend
Ind
St. Patrick's Catholic
Charles 8. Schubert
Schubert
Angelus
Grandfather of Wolves Trapped Near Twin Lakes
Rhinelander Wisconsin deputy sheriff Andrew Anderson trapped the largest timber wolf seen in the county near Twin Lakes. The 119 pound body was displayed at Gagen for days. Anderson, with forty years of trapping, notes the wolf is the biggest he has ever seen. The wolf stood three feet tall, measured six feet nose to tail, and had a previously clipped right fore foot.
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Rhinelander
Wis
Andrew Anderson
Twin Lakes
Gagen
Mr. Anderson
Blind couple marries in Lafayette despite blindness
Ella Reeves of Lafayette and Frank J. Wagner of Terre Haute, both born blind, wed quietly here recently in a ceremony conducted by Justice Thomas Bridges. Wagner, a piano tuner, came to meet Reeves by voice and traveled alone to the marriage. They plan to reside in Terre Haute afterward.
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Lafayette
Ind
Ella Reeves
Frank J. Wagner
Terre Haute
Thomas Bridges
Justice of the Peace
Wagner
Miss Reeves
Northwestern College Bride Sets Model Husband Rules
Evanston Illinois Mrs Howard Osborn a Northwestern University student bride designed a perfect mate through romance rather than science. Her rules shaped Howard Osborn from 6 am workouts to diet and study habits leading to gold medals and graduation. The couple plans marriage after his 1915 success story.
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Evanston
Ill
Howard Osborn
Northwestern University
Northwestern
E. H. Harriman
Howard
Minute Record Kept by One-Legged Beggar in Minneapolis
Police arrested Elmer Norton on vagrancy charges after Detective T. J. Kelly found a red leather bound book in his pocket. The manuscript appears to log every mile traveled every cent spent on transport and every donor, plus other records the police cannot yet interpret.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Elmer Norton
T. J. Kelly
Norton
Preparedness in Business Urged by Industrial Leaders
Five leading U S manufacturers associations representing about 14 billion dollars in capital and 6 million workers sponsor a New York City meeting on postwar preparedness. Colonel Pope calls for industry wide standardization and warns politicians and rivals threaten wartime gains.
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New York
William H. Barr
National Founders’ Association
H. H. Rice
National Metal Trades Association
George Pope
National Association of Manufacturers
John P. Wood
National Association of Woolen Manu
Albert G. Duncan
National Association of Cotton Manufacturers
Barr
United States
Pope
Elks Club Possum Captured in Natchez Street Incident
Patrolman Ed Gahan found a large possum on the Elks club steps in Natchez Mississippi. He pursued and captured the animal believing it to be the city goat. The animal was jailed on a prowling charge and condemned to execution by the city hall janitor.
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Natchez, Miss
Franklin Street
Ed Gahan
Elks Club
Treed Black Cat Mistaken for Opossum during Night Hunt
Saylersville Kentucky. J B Adams and his two sons Carl and Bundy went opossum hunting at nine. They returned after twelve hours and slept beneath a tree. The next morning they learned a big black cat had been treed instead of a coon after the dog charged into the brush.
Whisky Code Exposed In Oil Field Peddling
In Drumright Oklahoma a whisky code used by peddlers links big pipe to quarts and little pipe to pints. The system also uses soup for beer and telegram orders. A misrouted telephone order from Wirt to Waurika revealed the code when the recipient asked questions about the request.
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Drumright
Okla
Wirt
Waurika
Skunk Farm Brings Profits to Lehigh County Farmer
Solomon Hausman near Bittner's corner in Lowhill township runs a skunk farm on ten acres. He killed sixty skunks last year and expects about 400 this year as fur prices rise. Black-skinned pelts sell for $3 while striped or mixed skins bring about $1.50. Skunks are fed daily with boiled potatoes and slaughtered each December.
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Allentown
Lehigh County
Solomon Hausman
Bittner
Hausman
Quail Cultivation Plans emerge in Delaware Poultry Yard
Bridgeville Delaware Henry Savage a Nanticoke Hundred farmer keeps a covey of quail and plans to raise them for market. He found fourteen quail feeding with his chickens in the yard and observed them roosting in the poultry house at night alongside the fowl.
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Bridgeville
Del
Henry Savage
Savage
Navy Adopts Live Eagle as Ship Mascot in Norfolk
A live American eagle joins the navy’s zoological collection as the battleship New Hampshire’s official mascot. Trapped by crew members in Dismal Swamp, the eagle becomes the sole eagle in the navy.
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Navy
Norfolk
New Hampshire
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Washington State College
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Wisconsin
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American Press Association
Delaware
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Wenatchee, Wash
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Missouri
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Leavenworth
Lamb-Davis Lumber
Leavenworth, Wash
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Ecok
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