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Last week Gangster Capone, with a bodyguard of eight including "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, attended the Northwestern-Nebraska football game at Evanston, Ill. This time the players did not greet him. And when the spectators learned of Capone's presence among them they raised a storm of angry booing. "I came to see the game," said Gangster Capone. "I'm going to stick...
Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott asked Chief William O. Freeman of the Evanston police to evict Gangster Capone & party.* Chief Freeman said they had tickets, were committing no offense. He did not see how it could be done. The student booing continued, however, and at the end of the third quarter Capone & henchmen left. A crowd of 400 followed him out. A band of Boy Scouts gamboled about him shouting...
...minutes after they started to play in Evanston, Northwestern had three touchdowns against Nebraska, two by Ernest ("Pug") Rentner, one by Ken Meenan. Nebraska struggled hard for the last three periods, scored in the second. Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone & party, who were booed from the stadium after the third quarter, thus saw all the scoring-Northwestern 19, Nebraska...
...name of Frances Elizabeth Willard, longtime (1879-98) president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, is held dear by all teetotalers. She dried up Evanston, Ill. so thoroughly that to this day you have to drive several miles west of town to a row of beer-saloons or push south into adjacent Chicago to get a drink. From 1859 to 1874 Miss Willard spent most of her time in Evanston, first as a student at Northwestern Female College (now part of Northwestern University), later on the faculty of Evanston College for Ladies (then as now also part...