Word: southern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pawnee. Okla., two officers arrested Tom Vernon, alias Tom Brennan. Deputy Sheriff Thomas J. Higgins of Los Angeles, who had stalked Vernon across six states, charged him with wrecking and robbing a Southern Pacific train near Saugus, Cal. last month. Sheriff Gus Romsa of Cheyenne was on hand to charge him also with last week's Wyoming...
...death of his wife in 1927. Died. Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf, 59, famed Jesuit seismologist, director of Georgetown University Seismological Observatory ; at Washington; of heart disease. For 25 years he located, observed, reported some 9,000 earthquakes yearly. Died. Robert Forster Whitmer, 65, President of Central West Virginia & Southern R. R. of West Virginia; at Chestnut Hill, Pa. Died. Charles James McCarthy, 68, onetime (1918-21) Governor of Hawaii; at Honolulu; of cancer of the throat. In 1890 he became a member of the monarchical House of Nobles, was a staunch supporter of Queen Liliuokalani (deposed 1887). Died. Benjamin Franklin...
...personal opinion of the late great Walter Camp. Now each U. S. newspaper has its Camp, its All-American team. Notre Dame's big schedule of games in many parts of the U. S. gave numerous critics a chance to see the Carideo work. Quarterback Saunders of Southern California caught the third period kick-off and went back 22 yards. Then he signaled the ball to himself until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could...
...knowledge that Tulane was the only unbeaten and untied team in the Southern Conference made the Louisiana statesmen overeager. Profiting by penalties, tall Captain Billy Banker and his green wave worked in their usual style. Tulane 21, Louisiana State...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...