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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1915
Page
3
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The article recounts General De Wet and his followers fleeing across South Africa as motorized British forces close in. It notes a shift from cavalry skill to mounted infantry tactics against ever-present motor cars and engines, with the Chicago Herald calling the conflict the Automibile War and praising the new facet of modern warfare.
A 1914 1914 08 list shows 35 poisoning cases from arsenic based fly papers between July 1 and August 24. It notes five deaths and 30 injuries across Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Minnesota Nebraska New York North Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania.
University of Chicago coach A A Stagg lists Des Jardien Shull and Russell as top Chi cago players and defends not naming all star elevens. He argues reporters overlook defense and mocks sport writers as biased while praising Des Jardien and Pete Russell as elite centers and quarterbacks.
In a Polish farmyard at midnight, the Forty-ninth Prussian infantry reserve battalion repels a Russian night foray. Artillery and bayonet action follow as soldiers guard prisoners and tend wounded, while two hundred Russians are captured. Eleven men are killed or dead and twenty wounded. eleven Iron Crosses awarded.
Clerks in Seattle and Tacoma puzzled when a slatted box in a mail room yielded a black kitten. The special messenger delivered the animal to Miss HEdna Fox of West Crockett Street within an hour of arrival. Live stock cannot be sent by parcel post, but the Kitten was treated as a safe, soon after arrival.
Daughters of Doctor Van Dyke American minister to Holland wear Dutch clothing and wooden shoes for a Holland home portrait. Miss Katrina stands left and Miss Paula right in the photo taken at the Van Dyke residence.
The kiss given by genius Solotaroff to his bride before marriage unsettled him and led to his eccentric behavior. Eugenie Solotaroff recalls he was deeply affected by the kiss, affecting his work, and her husband later sought an annulment after eight years as they court witness described to Supreme Court Justice Blanchard.
Mr and Mrs Israel J McDonalds of Newton Avenue Newton celebrate fifty years of marriage in Branchville New Jersey surrounded by seven of their wedding guests and 53 relatives and friends They are seventy three and sixty eight years old and estimate walking at least 41600 miles to attend church services both weekday and Sundays.
A San Francisco undertaker builds a funeral automobile that seats 87 besides a coffin and space for flowers. The innovation highlights urban transport and memorial practices in the city.
In Indian infantry regiments subadar equals a captain and jemadar equals a lieutenant, havildar sergeant and naik corporal, Repoy private. In cavalry troopers are sowars with sergeants becoming duttader and captains rigaldar.
Michigan high court rules that lack of entertainment and companionship by a husband does not prove extreme cruelty or non-support sufficient for divorce. Brown v. Brown, 146 Northwestern Reporter 271, involved a Kalamazoo couple married eleven years where the wife sought relief citing minimal social interaction.
Sea water treated electrically is valued as a disinfectant and is used in English cities to clean swimming pools, schools, and hospitals. It is effective and cheap. artificial sea water is made where salt water is unavailable. Public pools are kept sweet by initial and periodic additions of treated water.
A circular leather backed telephone index slips beneath the mouthpiece. Green leather flaps radiate from the center and push in and out to expose wedge shaped number sections. An Emergencies division holds police fire and doctors numbers for quick access.
The Yellowstone park spans about 2,142,720 acres across Montana Wyoming and Idaho and was established in 1872. It is compared with a larger park in British Columbia and with Jasper park described as covering 8,200,000 acres under new Northwestern Territory authority.
The longtime umpire Bill Klem takes up golf after the National League season. He visits the league office where John Heydler allegedly offers a bag of clubs, and Klem becomes intrigued by a new niblick promising a chance to sneak up on Heinie Zimmerman in a bunker.
Connie Mack contemplates changes in the Athletics for next season. He plans transforming the outfield and has drafted Bill Lee of the Trenton Tri-State league for the outer garden. The manager already lists Oldring, Strunk, Murphy, Walsh, Thompson, Davies, and Lee as outfielders, with potential releases of veterans.
Manager John McGraw hints at major planned changes for next season as he aims to strengthen the team beyond Gianta in multiple positions to capture the pennant. He remains tight lipped on specific moves but acknowledges a large task ahead.
Two golfers at a construction site faced disaster when a wrench fell from a roof. One yelled Fore, sparing the man below from injury or worse as he ducked in time. The tale, sourced from Golfers Magazine, highlights quick reflexes and proper conduct.
A Milwaukee Sentinel writer notes the Yale Harvard football game drew about seventy thousand spectators, the largest crowd for any single event in U S history. The piece praises football as an amateur sport with a high class of young players and argues professionals would not generate comparable interest.
Walter Eckersall names Chicago player Russell to his second all conference team after ranking Dorais of Notre Dame last year and above Clarke of Illinois. Russell will compete for the position this season against Tommy Hughitt of Michigan on the western side. Pogue is noted as a familiar Illinois name at half.
A Philadelphia humorist quips that Rube Oldring’s alleged wife should sue him for nonsupport and that Connie Mack has good sound reasons for pursuing a suit after the events surrounding the world series small drama.
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