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...Illinois Central grade crossing where a locomotive hit Mrs. Hurley's La Salle convertible coupe, dragged it 300 feet, seriously injured her daughter and son-in-law, Attorney William A. Ryan. Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.'s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from injuries inflicted by a prize bull; at his Walhalla Farm outside Schenectady, N. Y. Died. Magnus Washington Alexander, 62, president of the National Industrial Conference Board; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. An expert on industrial planning, in 1928 he called U. S. industry too sanguine. Died...
...Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter house. A Pennsylvania packing company bought him for $1.27 per lb. on the hoof, lowest price paid for Steer of the Year since 1923.* Nevertheless, in more ways than one Briarcliff Thickset made history. His breeder and owner was not a Midwestern cattleman but a retired New York financier, Oakleigh Thorne of Pine Plains, N. Y. And not in 31 years had an Eastern steer beaten all the animals of the West and Southwest. Runner-up was a shorthorn called Illini Major, raised on the College Farms...
Holstein cattle-breeders among TIME devotees were doubtless given a start of real pleasure to see the picture of the new Holstein National grand champion, Man O' War 30th with his breeder, Walter Schmidt of Minnesota, at the leadstrap, and to read your description of the National Dairy Exposition in the Oct. 26 TIME. Pansy caught your fancy; how about King Bessie Mabel Susie, another well-known young bull of this breed entered at the National but not exhibited...
...plans to build a fifth great eastern trunk line, Railman' Williams put forward a plan of his own in 1929, two years after Mr. Loree was frustrated in his efforts. Partly because of the strong position of Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wabash plans failed. Railman Williams, a famed breeder of stock and poultry, was exhibiting at the National Dairy Show in St. Louis (see p. 13) when he died. Died. Rt. Rev. Theodore Irving Reese, 58, Protestant Episcopal bishop of Southern Ohio; of paralysis; in Cincinnati, Ohio. Bishop Reese had been ailing since his elevation to the bishopric...
When he had about completed his program at Bloomington, there came to visit him an elderly Californian, Senator Leland Stanford, and his wife, Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. Once Governor of California, Senator Stanford was a rich, celebrated horse breeder. To Dr. Jordan he explained his mission: his only son, Leland Stanford Jr. had died of Roman fever in 1884, aged 16, in Florence, Italy. To perpetuate his memory Senator & Mrs. Stanford had founded a university "free from traditions and precedents, one that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills...