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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...St. Procopius College...
...spring of 1936 the Travelers' Insurance Co. in St. Louis, Mo. received an agitated telephone call from one John Womack. His voice trembling, Mr. Womack related that his wife, Bertha Mae, had been sideswiped by a dairy truck in East St. Louis, knocked to the pavement where she gave premature birth to a dead child. Mr. Womack added that he would settle his claim immediately for $2,000. Preferring to investigate, a company representative found plump Bertha Mae bedded in a local hospital. Physicians decided she had given birth to a child but could discover no evidence of external...
...story garage in St. Louis, Mo. one afternoon last week, ten men gathered to watch a fight-to-death between two brindle American pit bulldogs-four laborers, a streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
...Unalaska in the Aleutian Islands, to St. Michaels in bleak Norton Sound, through storms on the shallow Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Bay on the coast of Siberia, through the Bering Straits to the black cliffs of Herald Island, the Jeannette pushed her way. There she was frozen in, far south of the Pole, even south of waters regularly visited by whalers. Contrary to common belief, the frozen wastes were not silent and inert. Submerged ice floes smashed steadily against the hull of the Jeannette. The pressure on her timbers made the ship crack with a sound like repeated rifle...
Although the Varsity has held informal practice sessions during the mid-year period, the players are not in top condition. Some of them have found it impossible to attend these practices. On the other hand the St. Nicks have been playing regularly since last facing the Crimson...