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...Davis had gone chiefly to large towns, centres of capital and industry, Mr. Bryan visited the smaller farming and laboring communities. With Candidate LaFollette harrying north of him, Mr. Bryan devoted two days to scouring the southern part of the state in flag-decked automobiles. He stopped in Christopher, Benton, Fairfield, Mount Vernon (near his birthplace, Salem, where he is still known as "Jack" Bryan, a boyhood nickname). Winding up with a speech at Robinson, he then jumped over into Ohio, working through Norwalk and Middletown (home of James M. Cox?onetime Presidential candidate), and thus back into Indiana...
Bismarck R. Pinchback, namesake of Otto Edward Leopold, Empire-forger, died last week. He had the distinction of being the son of the only Negro who ever acted as Governor of Louisiana. His father, Pinckney Benton Stewart, as President of the State Senate and Lieutenant Governor, ruled Louisiana for two months (December 1872 through January 1873) during the impeachment trial of Governor Henry Clay Warmoth. It was at the time of the carpet-bagger-scalawag régime, when President Grant was maintaining a Republican state government in power by force of arms. Histories call Pinchback a good...
Died. Bismarck R. Pinchback, son of Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, onetime Governor of Louisiana (see Page...
Died. William A. Miske, 29, St. Paul heavyweight pugilist, of acute Bright's disease, in Minneapolis. In 114 fights he was knocked out only once- by Jack Dempsey at Benton Harbor, Mich., in 1920. His last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness...
HARVARD 1927 YALE 1927 Robinson, r.e. r.e., Wolf Kilgour, r.t. r.t., Benton Savory, r.g. r.g., Wortham Bond, c. c., Sturhahn Platt, l.g. l.g., Vieths Daley, l.t. l.t., Richards Dean, l.e. l.e., Coleman Hamlen; q.b. q.b., Bunnell Miller, r.h.b. r.h.b., Noble Zarakov, l.h.b. l.h.b., Wadsworth Coady, f.b. f.b., Kline...