Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-01-01
WHAT 1918 BROUGHT TO THE WORLD
Summary Of the More Important Happenings Of the
Twelve Month Here and Abroad.

ments that could positively be desig-
mated as disappearing.
The discovery Of the south pole and
the disaster to the Scott expedition
both occurred in 1912, although the
fate OF Captain Scott was not made
known to the world until 1913. DR..
Friedrich Franz Friedman, discover
er OF cure" for tuberculosis, made
his appearance In 1913, but the value
OF DIR. Friedmann's cure" and other
cures" for that dread disease an
nounced at about the same time, are
very much open to doubt Great strides
have undoubtedly been made in the
treatment of cancer, but no positive
cure has yet been discovered, although
much has been learned about the value
of radium.
Aviation is progressing rapidly.
Much attention to aeronautics has
been paid by the various European
governments from a military stand
point, but no means of making aero
planning anywhere near safe have yet
been discovered. France has organized
and trained a military aviation corps
that would unquestionably be of great
value in case of war, and Germany
has devoted much time and money to
dirigible ballooning, The United
States has spent some $4,000 during
the year in military experiments in
aviation.
The number of deaths resulting from
aviation has not been especially large.
Aviators have died, just as aviators
died in 1912, and Germany suffered a
number of disastrous accidents to Yep
pelin dirigible balloons. Many Of the
accidents OF aeroplanes resulted from
fancy exhibition flying and military
experiments. The year 1913 saw the
first aeroplane fight over the Panama
canal.
On the Panama Canal.
In Panama great developments have
taken place. October 10 last saw the
dynamiting of Gamboa dixie, being the
removal of practically the last serious
obstruction in the big ditch. The ca
nal is now almost completed, so far al
trans-continental waterway is con
cerned, although not yet prepared To-
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ocean. Work has also been begun OIL
the buildings and grounds for the grea
Panama-Paclt1c International exposi
ton, to be held in San Francisco II
1915, as a celebration Of the forma
opening Of the Panama canal.
New York state furnished the mos
sensational bit of local politics Of tn
| L., t,,ny oh mr.
of Gov. William Sulzer, followed b
Suffers nomination by Progressive
, and election to the state assembly.
In the world Of sports the Unite
States still stands supreme. In add
ton to humbling the British polo Gu
/, challengers, the United States furthe
, shocked Johnny Bull when Franci
Ouimet, the youthful golf wonde
walked away from the English expert
in the national open golf championshi
at Brcokline, Mass, and by the vii
ming Of the international Davis tenn
. cup. Americas supremacy in sport
, / was further recognized during the yea
. when King Gustaye of Sweden pr
: sented the American athletes with II
medals and trophies won at the Olyr
> pic games In Stockholm in 1912. TT
:, sporting world suffered a shock, ho'
!. ever. when 1t was learned that Yin
- Thorpe, the famous Carlisle India
: athlete really belonged in the class
. fication of professional" He volu
tarily renowned the trophies he hi
won as an amateur In the Olymp
q games
% Here are the leading events of Il
n year:
4 Disasters, Fires, Floods.
n Floods in Ohio, many killed, mu
,e suffering and great damage done.
4. Floods In the Mississippi valley as
r. result OF Ohio floods.
le Tornado destroys part Of Omat
y Neb.
n. Zeppelin LIZ exploded October
r. Twenty killed,
," Gas explosion near Pittsburgh XII
of 100 miners.
r. Long Beach, Cal, pier gives W;
killing S5 persons.
NJ Disastrous foods in Texas, ea
ge part of October.
IT. Firedamp in Welsh mine enton
If. 931. Five hundred rescued alive.
70 Two hundred and eighty miners
lc. tombed following mine explosion
ed Dawson, N. NJ. Twenty-three rescu
ID, alive.
an Steamship Nevada strikes a mine
an Gulf of Smyrna. One hundred 9
twenty drowned.
Steamer Volturno burned at sea
To- tober TO- One hundred and thirty,
I'm drown, CPS rescued.
sh- Fifty girls die in factory fire at 81
he hamton, N. Y, July 22.
es- Storm at Nome, Alaska, kills
an destroys 500 houses, $1.5Oo.OOO loss
ult The Death Roll.
nd Enver Bey, chief of staff Turk
army, assassinated February II.
Ta- Henry n. Flagler, one OF found
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