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...Somebody aboard a speeding railway train near Dusseldorf fired random shots at pedestrians, hit none. Gerresheim police picked up a dead bicyclist, said he had been killed "apparently by shots fired aimlessly by passengers on a tram...
With exception of the war with Tripoli, the U. S. Coast Guard has played a distinguished part in every national struggle since its inception in 1790 as the revenue cutter service. The sinking of its cutter Tampa with 115 souls aboard stands, with the exception of the Navy's lost collier Cyclops, as the largest single U. S. naval loss during the World War. Operating in peace time under the Treasury Department, the chief business of the 11,966 officers & men and 350 vessels of the Coast Guard is saving lives & property, not shooting 'leggers. They bring...
While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
...paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked...
Died. Rev. Dr. Henry Chapman Swearingen, 63, of St. Paul, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; of heart disease; aboard a train near Hastings, Neb. As a result of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, he was appointed chairman of a special commission of 15 in 1925 "to study the causes of unrest in the denomination." Later he headed a commission investigating marriage, divorce and remarriage...