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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1919
Page
9
Eight students out of 5009 enrolled at the university failed to meet the required standards after the first week. The record shows only eight were dropped from college for poor performance while about 200 were placed on conditioning for failing one or more subjects but showing potential.
Robert Lansing secretary of state and noted sportsman is praised by Willett H Stevens for twenty years of fishing in Henderson Harbor New York. Stevens says Lansing uses light tackle and seeks sport more than quantity of fish.
In England the lords of the bedchamber earn 5000 dollars annually. Only noblemen of the highest rank qualify to hold the office.
Fire at Sing Sing prison in Ossining New York caused over 200000 in losses to storage buildings. Officials suspect incendiary origin and say the blaze aimed to disrupt operations with raw materials destroyed. Prisoners aided responders as the fire was controlled shortly after 11 o clock.
A four foot by four foot painting of the Virgin Child with Saint Benedict and Saint Bernard, dated about 400 years old, was found in a barn near Madrid. The work, titled Mystery Madonna, is valued as of rare excellence and may be purchased by the Spanish government. The artist remains unknown.
Chicago police reported only two hold ups and 12 other robberies after raids that netted 45 suspects from underworld haunts. Authorities said the result left police and public hopeful and encouraged.
In Omaha Nebraska department stores launch doll sewing classes for girls to teach texture value and quality of fabrics. Miss Mary Marston leads the program with expert sales staff guiding selections and discussions on fabric suitability, aiming to reduce costs through informed buying. A boy attends as a future department store buyer.
New York reports a joint appeal from Yale’s Arthur Hadley Princeton’s John Hibben and Harvard’s A Lawrence Sewell. Professors, not highly paid, struggle to live in reasonable comfort and raise their children amid rising living costs affecting renowned institutions.
London reports a strong welcome for Eugene Criqui the French bantam who faced Walter Ross in a notable bout. Criqui trained at Mme Delysia’s Horley residence Bedeham Hill with two boxing partners amid refined surroundings signaling growing professional boxing prominence.
Surgeons at Gouverneur hospital report the remarkable recovery of Johnny Maher after a 110 foot fall from a Manhattan bridge shanty. He plunged head first and survived with only a headache, outdoing the famous Brodie incident from the Brooklyn bridge.
An anatomist argues that plucked chicken resembles a reptile. Feathers and scales suggest modifications of the same creature. He notes earliest birds may have had teeth and resembled reptiles, using tree jumping to develop flight.
M. E. Taylor, 24, of 1602 14th Ave South, was fined 75 dollars by Police Judge John B. Gordon for reckless driving. He knocked down five pedestrians waiting for a streetcar at 14th Ave and College St on October 31. Ida M. Ely, 2211 14th Ave South, was seriously injured. four others were slightly injured. Taylor testified he believed the car would not stop. once it did, he braked and skidded into the group.
News from Cleveland reports eggs planned by breeders in the near future. Alton F. Briggs of Boston Massachusetts, president of the National Poultry Eggs and Butter Association, says hens will lay two or three times the size of ordinary farmyard eggs, and these will be twice as large as present varieties.
Spokane dispatch reports Congressman J Stanley Webster arrives from Washington for a public address at the armory tomorrow night under the American Legion and Constitutional Government League. A separate note estimates disease affecting honey bees costs exceeding 1 million dollars yearly in the United States.
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