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Yale: Minor, Canning, Bliss, Anderson, Watson, Marvin, Wing, Blacharski...
...October 8--Officials of the Yale Athletic Association and other University authorities remained silent here today regarding the proposal of the Daily News that a special football game be scheduled for the benefit of the unemployed. the ranks of those who have advocated the game was swelled by Doctor Marvin A. Stevens, who vouched for the willingness of the entire squad to aid in relief work. In an editorial this morning the News suggested a contest with Notre Dame on December...
...Died. Marvin Hart, 55, heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 1905; at Ferncreek, Ky. The title was conferred upon him by James J. Jeffries after the latter had retired and Hart had knocked out Jack Root of Chicago. After eight months Hart lost to Tommy Burns in a 20-round fight at Los Angeles. Out of his championship he realized only $10,000, lived to complain: "I was born 20 years too soon...
Last week two major kidnap deals were consummated. At a New York police station appeared Charles Marvin Rosenthal, 24-year-old stockbroker, to announce that he had been freed by kidnappers who had held him 17 days in a New York apartment. A few hours earlier a black bag containing $50,000 had mysteriously disappeared from the check room of a hotel near Broadway. Kidnappee Rosenthal, who prior to his disappearance had lost heavily on the stockmarket, said he had been dragged out of a taxicab by three men, later said a beautiful brunette had delivered him into the hands...
...decorating his truck with jackasses labelled "Farm Board" and "Wheat Farmer," and driving away with the tail board down so his load dribbled out through the town's streets. Here & there growers plowed their crop under rather than take the loss of harvesting it. In Pratt County one Marvin Shetterly, unable to harvest his 155-acre stand, watched 2,800 bu. bring $100 at auction-about 3½? per bu. or less than the cost of the seed. Declared Governor Woodring: "There is panic in the midst of plenty...