10 Nov 1915
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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1915
Page
1
Northwestern University football team held two hours of hard practice in Chicago as prep for Saturday’s game with Indiana. Patterson, lightly hurt against Missouri, sat out while freshmen Daly and Coleman stood out in quarterback and center drills.
The Federal league plans to invade New York in 1918 with a New York franchise on Manhattan Island. President Gilmore says Buffalo will be restructured with a future role, and grounds have been secured for a 65,000 seat stadium. Officers elected include Gilmore as president and treasurer with George Ward as vice president and Thomas W. Gilmore as secretary.
Salt Lake City November 10 wrestling to revive in Utah. Fred Crabbe, holder of the Utah lightweight title and former Northwest champion, announces a match between local favorite Mike Yokel and European middleweight champion Corsonarus. If Yokel returns to form, Salt Lake could gain a new champion and a lively bout. Also notes James Dickle eyeing a Wright Biplane to aid sheep business in central Wyoming.
London reports warn that Britain’s new excess profits tax on war finance could force a shift of gold mining control from British to American hands. The plan, taxing 50 percent of excess profits for British companies, risks halting expansion and delaying production at mines like Brakpan and Spring in South Africa, with global effects on ownership and financing and potential gains for American financial power.
New York issued notice that thousands of Belgian soldiers in England and France, in camps in Holland, and prisoners in Germany, lack good books. A committee asks for books or money to fund purchases, received by Pierre Mail, Belgian Consul General in New York, with honorary members including Emmanuel Haven th, Joseph H. Choate, Charles L. Bonaparte, Rev. J. P Stiliemann, and Louis de.
A statement from the Belgian committee urges relief for prisoners in Germany and advocates supplying books in French, Flemish, and English to sustain Belgians. It highlights the need for literature during hardship, including novels, history, science, and magazines, to aid educated soldiers lacking recreations. Last line notes Valeski Surat and Bob Albright at the Orpheum tonight.
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