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...their annual floral tribute, all members of the House of Representatives and page boys came to work with red carnations (paid for by Ohio Republicans) in honor of the 109th birthday of William McKinley. Next day, everyone wore white carnations (paid for by the Democratic National Congressional Committee) on the 70th birthday of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...tearful day this week, Wilkes-Barre waved goodbye to a troop train carrying the men of the 109th Field Artillery Battalion, National Guard. They were Wilkes-Barre's own-all men from the anthracite districts of Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley. The train headed west for Camp Atterbury, Ind. with 700 men and officers...
Among the 240 passengers aboard the Spirit of St. Louis there were only minor injuries. But aboard the troop train the dead and dying were trapped in a mass of twisted wreckage. Wyoming Valley got the heartbreaking news of its 109th Battalion: upwards of 30 men had been killed, more than 60 had been injured...
...Junior Varsity open their season on January 16 against the 109th Field Artillery at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Six men have been retained for the team...
Last week, when 15,000 pages of testimony had been taken and the trial had passed into its record-breaking 109th court day,* Judge Woolsey turned the case over to the jury. Before he had them locked up he drew protests from the defense by declaring "One of the interesting things in this case is that we have been in a corporate fairyland, and you never could tell when around the corner you might meet an appreciated asset or an ingeniously contrived surplus...