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Died. Lucius William Nieman, 77, editor-proprietor of the Milwaukee Journal; after long illness; in Milwaukee. Managing editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel before he was 21, he bought the Journal in 1882, put it on the streets as Wisconsin's first 2? daily. He introduced the first linotype to Milwaukee, scooped his rivals by using carrier pigeons in covering local events (see p. 42). His paper won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for its campaign against German propaganda. Once a bitter foe of big business, Publisher Nieman mellowed as his paper grew rich (1929 profits: $1.600.000). finally became an opponent...
...into their greenhouses will wither their sturdiest blooms. Director Crocker noted that tomato plants are so sensitive that they will droop in the presence of one part of gas to 100,000 of air. He advised growers to keep a tomato plant in their greenhouses to serve as a sentinel, give warning of gas in time to save the flowers...
...this time the Confederacy was a forlorn hope. Morgan's raids were no longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...
...return to the teachings of our fathers and cling at this hour close to them in obedience and pray fidelity to the guidance of the directors of our destiny-our fathers of Government and our Father in Heaven. From this security we may know that as the Sentinel of passing days, aye of passing days, passing his rounds upon the watch tower of civilization, conning the ominous signs of the times, shall hear rung out the challenge: 'Watchman. what of the night?' Angels grant that, true to the lessons of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, our friendship with...
...Jose, Kidnapper Holmes was naked. Kidnapper Thurmond had lost his trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal. The Los Angeles...