davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1922-12-14

on the side track It vas too late TO
avoid the crash.
The cylinder heads of the two loco
motives struck. that on the right side
Of the passenger train and that on
he left side OF the freight locomotive
being ripped away.
All the cylinder heads ripped loose.
a two-inch steam pipe on the freight
engine. which ran from the cylinder
to the steam chest. tore loose and
crashed into the window OF the smok.
ing car-the hrst coach Of the pas.
.enger train-literaliy cooking its
passengers with live steam and scaid-
Ing water.
Conductor Kempsey OF Houston. for
, 1922-12-14
ReprisGLs Are
Discouraged By
O'COnnor Family

DUBLIN. Dec. 14.-By The Asso-
ciated Press.GThe parents of Rory
O'Connor. who was executed by the
Free State government la week,
wrote to the newspapers as follows:
w abhor anything in the nature
of a reprisal for the death of our son.
Rory O'Connor. Our grief is not soft
ene by the thought of the sufferings
OF others. In his last letter. written
TO his younger brother on December
8 the day OF the execution. the fol-
lowing passage occurs: I could not
continue with my former comrades.
I am to meet death at their hands. /
forgive them all. The will of God he
done and may the honor of Ireland
he preserved"
, 1922-12-14

spects. Never before was here such
e throng in the modest neishbor-
hood IN South Philadelphia where
the church is situated.
Many celebrated persons, includ-
ing high representatives of the off
cial life OF the natiol. were here TO
officiate as honorary ~pallbearers or
TO attend the funeral services this
afternoon. The services at both the
church and at the Wanamalzer
mausoleum in the cemetery of st.
James The Less were private. In
vitations were issued commensurate
with the seating capacity OF the
, 1922-12-14

church which is estimated at slight
ly In excess OF 1000.
Simplicity marked the last rites
for the merchant prince. Three
hymns that were his life long
favorites were hts musical requiem.
They are Jesus. Saviour. Pilot
Me-" Jesus Lover OF MY Soul"
and Nearer My God to Thee" The
first named was sung by the girls
quartette OF Bethany; the others by
the Bethany choir.
The services were conducted by
the Rev. A. Gordon MacLennan, as
sisted by the Rev. f. Richie
, 1922-12-14
BRUNEN SLAYER
is GRILLED ON
WITNESS STAND

MOUNT HOLLY, N. Y, Dec. IA
Charles NJ. Powell. confessed slayer Of
Honest" John T. Brunen. circus
owner, took the stand again and
was subjected to a cross exami-
nation by the defense Powell. who
said Yesterday he shot the chow man
at the instigation Of Harry c. Mohr
aud his sister. Mrs. Doris Brunen.
was Questioned as to whether he had
been promised immunity for his ON
fession. Powell again declared that
he committed the crime to please
Mohr.
, 1922-12-14
Cemetery Lot
Ordered Sold
For AEimOny

Los ANGELES, Dec. 14.-when
Charles Manneli married. he bought
a for two in a cemetery, side by
side. intending that he and his wife
should rest there when they had
journexed to the end together.
To-Day he was directed by the SUI
perior court to sell the lots and
clear up his arrears of allmony 10
his wife. Hazel MannelI.
you wouldn't want t o be buried
side by side now anyway" the court
said yesterday.
, 1922-12-14
WANAMAkER IS r
THOUSANDS PAY TRgBUTE

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. IA
Thousands OF persons. representing
virtually every walk IN life. did
homage today at the bier of John
Wanamaker whose body lay In state
from Q o'clock until noon in Beth
my Presbyterian church. where the
famous merchant had worshipped
since boyhood and where he was a
familiar figure in the Sunday school
and other religious work. A long
line of persons formed on the
streets adjacent to the church
awaiting turns to pay their last re-
, 1922-12-14

presidfnt CT the company, decIared IN
a statement f3r Submission TO the
senate manufactures committee today
on resumption OF Its investigation OF
h oil Industry.
Going exclusively into conditions
which have arisen in the Industry
since h dissolution oecree. with par
ticular relation to the New Jersey
company, Mr.. Teasie declared his
company had observed the decree .'in
good faith both in letter and spirit, ,
adding;
Il want TO say with all en,phasla
, 1922-12-14
CaIiph Receives
Charles r. Crane

coNsTANTINoPLE. Dec. IA
Charles r. Crane. former United
States minister to China, was received
in audience by the Caliph yesterday.
Abdul Medjid said that Turkey locked
~instinctively to the United States for
friendly guidance and commercial sup
port. and asserted that Americas
participation in the Lausanne con-
ference IA q good augury for peace
Mr.. Crane leaves for Cairo today.
, 1922-12-14

SHREVEPORT La. Dec. 1f-An
Official report said the wreck oc-
Cured when the PASSENGER tain side
eyiped a switch engine ir h Humble
yards.
Engineer Holland Of the passenger
train. reported that the headlight on
the engine struck by the passenger
was not burning and that by the time
the passenger train engines headlight
had r to outline the other engine
, 1922-12-14
Father Is Diamond Gutter in Tiffany
Store, Gregory Peterson, Alias
"BIackie" Williams, says

From the lap of responsibility in the staid old city of
Brooklyn to a cot in a hospital in Casper with his head bat
tered in as the result of a brawl on the Sandbar, is the fate
of the man who was beaten almost to death with a monkey
wrench early Wednesday morning.
The man who has been called "BIackiee Williams. through
, 1922-12-14

10 years a familiar agure to travellers
on the road. was instantly killed. The
train news dealer died at his post.
his body being found underneath a
pile OF candy, newspapers and maya
, 1922-12-14
ASSASSINATION
OF SECRETARY
is FRUSTRATED
Poisoned Chocolates Sent to British Home
Secretary Through Mails Are Inter
copied; Others Warned

LONDON, Dec. 14.-(By The Associated Press Al at
tempt has been made TO assassinate Home Secretary w. C..
Bridgeman by means of poisoned chocolates sent through the
mails. The candy arrived at the home office yesterday and
the police found it contained arsenic.
1t is understood the police attribute the act to the same
, 1922-12-14
PRESIDENT OF BIG New JERSEY
BRANCH SAYS ALL BUSINESS is
BASED ON ACTIVE COMPETITION
Monopolistic Charges Denied in Address
Before Senate Probers, Dissolution
Decree Observed in Good Faitk

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-The Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey, constituting the supreme courts dissolution de-
cree by which it was cut off from its former corporate hold
ings as a final expression of the public will on the subject of
monoopolistlc control has conducted its business under the
conditions of free and active competHion.v w. c. TeagIe.
, 1922-12-14
FOURTEEN DEAD, MANY HURT
TEXAS RAILROAD WRECK
Death Toll of Crash Last Night at Humble
Increased by -Four Early Today;
Investigation to Be Launched

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 14-The death of four more per-
sons today brought the toll from last nights Southern Pacific
wreck at Humble, II miles from here, to Ia, revised figures
placing last nights death list at ten. All were scalded by e-
Gaping steam. Only only of the four who died today is known
to have been a white man, but others have not been identified.
, 1922-12-14

railway company ard county peace
officers aided In the preparations for
a thorough investigation.
, 1922-12-14
Weather Forecast

Generally fair tonight and Friday.
preceded by sno~ southeast portion
toniEht- Colder tonight Strong
winds IN southeast portion
, 1922-12-14
The Casper Tribune

Two editions daily: largest cueuia
ton Of any newspaper in wyoning
, 1922-12-14

William Norwood. heed OF Scotland
Yard.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

ing things moving at most interesting
pace. And when vassar College needs cam
paigners the flappers are called upon to
get to work; and they do get to work. That
is another answer to the question: Why do
the stodgy old professors like the flappers?
In clearer detail this answer is that the
girls are working assiduously to raise the
vassar College Salary Endowment Fund
You know what that means: that the
fappers are working to get money to pay
the professors adequately.
In spite of the fact that the teachers like
their giddy charges so well, there is one
thing they don't like about them. Flappers'
earmarks were barely mentioned a few
moments ago; well, that's what the pro-
fessors dislike. The very pretty Miss
Simpson, whose photograph is shown in
the upper left corner of the page, has them.
What? Earrings!
Vassar professors have a prejudice
against earrings, and nobody knows why.
If Miss Simpson knew why--if she could
have got reasonable explanation for the
perfectly silly objection - she probably
would never have gone ahead and worn
her earrings when she was photographed
II is quite true that the professors are dis
pleased by the wearing of these bits Of
pendants. Surely it is not because they are
under the impression that they do not be.
come Miss Simpson They do.
The flapper organization for the cam.
paign to raise its part of the. Endowment
Fund is the most active of all. Literally
active! For one thing. they have organized
THE vassar Folies."' Moreover, the Fol
lies" are playing to crowded houses in Con-
nocticut New York and New Jersey towns
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
What the Fund Means
To Great Women's Colleges

In May, 1920, the General Education
Board, connected with the Rockefeller
Foundation. made conditional gift OF
100000 each to Bryn Mawr, Smith, welles-
ley. Mount Holyoke and vassar. The con-
dition was that each college raise three
times the amount through its own efforts
The gift found Bryn Mawr and Smith
already In the processes Of money raising
campaigns and Mount Holyoke and Welles-
der about ready to launch them. vassar
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

7 ASSAR COLLEGE is one of the most
v conservative educational S al in institu. ,.srs
tions for women in all this world.
vassar has dignity; vassar takes itself
quite seriously, and has every right to do so.
II is an institution for higher learning: its
courses lead to Baccalaureate, Masters and
Doctors degrees and include everything
from business arithmetic to Indo-Iranian
philology. One would think, on the strength
of all this, that vassar's student body is
made up of New England spinsters-all
spinsters are from New England-and seri.
Gus, unreasonable bookworms in imitation
tortoise shell effects
II Is not.
Vassar's got fappers--lots Of them.
The professors are a rather staid. cir.
cumspect lot, as professors are foreor.
dained to be. This is not to say that the
students are not circumspect, too; but that
word "circumspect" has a sort of unpleas-
ant sound to ears hidden underneath bobbed
tresses. II Is not a modern word. 1t is al
most obsolete. Nowadays, girls must be
busy doing things, and It's next to impos-
sible in these forward looking times for a
girl to be circumspect and busy doing
things at the same time Hence, the
boasted lack of circumspectness!
AS has been pointed out, there are sew
eral fappers at vassar--or maybe more
than that. And It would seem reasonable
that these giddy, high spirited, daredevil,
ultra-modern very-young young women
would be the bane Of life for the staid nro-
fessors; wouldn't IL seem so? Yes, IL
would; but it's not the fact.
II would seem that the frivolous young
ladies would exasperate the professors to
utter distraction, for nappers do exasperate
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

MI European dress-at least for the
street-and women are following
their lead. The reason for this. according
to Nine. Inouye. Dean of Women at the
University of Toxic. is that her country
women are rebeing against a slavery to
countless costumes, one for every occasion
and all subject to complete ripping and re-
making after each washing or cleaning.
The Japanese women. mistakenly perhaps,
think that Western women are free from
this labor.
Besides says Nine. Inouye. "the bulky.
flowing kimono is unsuitable for an active
life. easily soiled and hampering to women
The Dean is an attendant of the Confer
ence for the Limitation of Armament at
Washington, where she is representing the
college women of Japan. She wears trim
tailormade suit on the street.
In Japan a special cloth is made that
must be worn for a certain occasion and
then only. II woman attends a wedding
only particular textile is permissible. II
she attends a funeral another must be worn,
and so on for every occasion. Japanese
women ask to be released from this CALLING
custom.
Women in Japan" said the Dean, have
better. time than they used and their free
dom is being extended. They now have a
chance of domestic Independence, for the
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

was merely considering ways and
means when the offer was made.
Vassar got under way last Octo-
ber with her campaign and has
gone ahead with amazing speed.
The conditions had been fulfilled
by the middle of December and
now the Vassar fund has reached
approximately $2,500,000, with
$500,000 still to be raised. The
methods employed by the college
women and alumne to raise this
money are most interesting.
"The vassar Follies'' have been
discussed. But the greatest single
money getter is Vassar Shop. X
Vassar Shop is the group outcome u
of the individual efforts of rearly
5000 alumn4 to raise $3.50 each,
the amount assigned based on 5000
alumn@ and students. This would
total $1,500,O0O. Before the holi-
days there were Vassar shops all
over the Eastern States, but now
they are all centered in the big
shop as it now exists at 551 Madi-
son, avenue. The Vassar Club of
New York has taken over the
scheme in an effort to raise group pledge
of s10,000,. in addition to assisting con-
signors to raise their individual quotas OF
$3.50.
The Vassar Shop sells everything-al-
most Beads, books, gowns, cigarettes, pogo
sticks Almost everything!
But they are not the only ones who are
merchandising. The flappers are doing
a bit of it around the campus. Such old
tricks as selling the radiators are not in
the bags of the up to date girls Of vassar
undergraduate classes. At the college the
students are doing all sorts of things to
make good pledge of 100000. This part
of the fund must come from the girls them
selves, for their parents and relatives are
listed in another group, called Friends of
vassar and Potential Donors"
The ingenuity of the fiapper is one of
her principal charms. One girl has been
renting out her fur coat and turning over
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
Young and Old,
Admire Their Vivacity

Strange, isn't It? Why is It that flap
pers-sneered at in all America, laughed
at and even pitied--are held in high regard
at conservative old vassar College? Why
are they recognized and respected?
One answer to all these questions is that
the professors have had it proved to them
that the girls in the lower classes who
come to vassar with all the earmarks of
the fapper turn out after little while to
be the backbone of college life and activity
Whether there was any such backbone
before happers we're invented is point Of
uncertainty. Older people say there was
a good deal of it, but everybody knows how
older people are inclined to boast and
exaggerate when they talk Of college days
and the heavy SHOWS of their childhood
The chances are that the fapper-poor
misunderstood child--is a potential bull.
wark of strength to college. To amend:
the fapper is a potential bulwark to a
women's college; IL Is quite doubtful II she
is so essentially beneficial to a coeduca-
tional institute.
In vassar they arc ebullient spirits. keep
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

thongs rather an epitome of the new ten.
dency of women to step out freely in long
strides to more abstract freedom
Well, to get back to some kind of sub
ject. The serious minded professors at
Vassar have not the least objection to the
"Follies" and their tour They are wise
men and they sit gravely at their desks
and let outsiders talk inconsequentially of
foolish Follies happers." They have the
general opinion that these apparently flip
pant and lightheaded young women are
really most sound, and that their ever flow.
ing high spirits and madcappish proclivities
are actually fino portentions of leader.
ship-leadership in action. Therefore they
like the flappers
It's new; it's modern! Tea table gather
ings ask themselves why the ffapper was
not invented hundred years ago. vassar
professors know the answer to that: Why,
the time was not ready for them They
came alonS in the natural processes of evo-
luton. They are not worth being flippant
about; they are worth being serious about
Mind you, please, the "Follies' project is
not the only accomplished fapper fancy
which has helped to endear the young mad
caps to the long headed, dour visaged peda-
gogues. To tell of other of their conquests
it will be necessary to tell something of
the vassar College Salary Endowment
Fund
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

the rent money to the fund. Another rents
of the lot is the seventeen-year-oldg girl who
raises odd bits of change for the fund by
killing mice for girls less brave.
They are, "a terribly busy lot. They are
giving benefit teas, coaching, having shop
sales and bazaars, and doing many things
in the hope OF insuring the professors
more adequate wage system.
Naturally, the professors fail utterly to
resent the vassar fiappers,
The New York herald., 1922-02-19


uncommon adjective 1t has quite
out-moded amusing" in the slang of the
studios and among those who affeos-the
artistic life. The dictionary meaning of the
word-"comblning an antique appearance
with a pleasing oddity. fancifulness, or
whimsicalness"-has. been quits submerged
in the passing craze for It's use. When the
Governors daughter in THE Tavern" said
to the vagabond. You are efquaintest man
ever knew" she did not really mean what
the dictionary says the word means he
was admiring his powers of deduction. But
the --latest" word has been worked into the
speech and that was the desired thing. The
tone always used in connection with quaint"
is patronizing. whether 1t is applied to q
human being. a picture, or what not The
user invariably tries to give the impression
that the object thus passed upon could
have been done ever so much better II, he or
she had had hand in making IL. To be
quaint" nowadays Is to be ever SO slightly
damned.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

folks to utter distraction. That's the curl
Gus part of it. That's the strange situation
that made this story possible-not only pos
sible, but necessary.
The professors, old and young alike,
whatever their faculties may be-whether
ancient languages or modern cookery-pos-
itively do not dislike the fappers. On the
contrary, they like them! There are sew
eral very learned and very hoary headed
male "profs" in Vassar and these are the
ones who really do like the f1appers great
deal.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

This is a Vassar Happer
of fifty years ago,
Miss Mary MACPHERSON,
who was the prettiest
and most stylish girl
in her class.
The New York herald., 1922-02-19
Jap SuffraqettesActive

domination OF tho father-in-law is waning.
When son marries now his tendency is
to take his wife and establish. a home Of his
own.
"Old maids are few In japan, and while
freedom of choice in a husband Is gaining
ground marriage among women is almost
universal and divorced women are rare.
The real desire is happiness in the family
and the modern educated woman in Japan
tries to live up to that IDEAL"
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

Vassar and the increasing
prosperity of their teachers.
1t is the opinion generally that the
show is an excellent one. 1t is for
good cause. 1t is making money.
These facts ought to, and really do,
counterbalance and more than coun-
terbalance the alleged indignity OF
skinny skirts and regulation "Fol-
lies" uniforms. For fact, there
is no indignity about it. The Vas
sar Follies" girls are fappers, aren't
they? Yes, and so there cannot be
the least indignity. But there would
have been disgrace in such a college
show before fiappers were invented.
Fifty years ago-or twenty-five-or
ten-such show as this one, which
Is bringing in a good deal of money
for the fund, would not have been
possible. College women simply could
not have acted in it. 1t would have
been most unbecoming to the colleges
name and dignity.
But styles in girls have changed.
Look at the picture of Miss Mary
MACPHERSON on this page and then
look at the "Follies" gang and at
smiling Miss Simpson. You scarcely
need to be told that Miss MacPher-
sons photograph was taken many
years ago. She was an undergradu.
ate at vassar when the picture was
made. Miss Simpson is an under
graduate now.
There's difference in their cloth
ing. Miss MACPHERSON is dressed in
the fashion of her day, and it allowed
her little freedom of movement. But
Miss Simpsons clothes are not
The New York herald., 1922-02-19

UAINT" is the latest word of the
world that must have new and
uncommon adjective. 1t has quite
, 1922-07-28

Meet me a. the smoke House.
, 1922-07-28

quis- a HDeciai posse worked the
way into tho country oo= IS miles.
and were rewarded by tho disclosure
OF ths large stu, and OF its two sup
posed operatives
Upon arriving at the scene OF the
"boozs" making. the men found no
human being. but while gathering the
stu aud loading IL into h machine.
preparatory q taking 81 to Casper for
evidence in cas- h men were caught.
two horsemen rode up and o~bligingiy
allowed themselves 10 Be ARRESTED on
charges OF Illegal manufacture OF
liquor. Both declare themselves IN
nocent, and gave the names OF Ted
Irwin and r. c. Burd. The later gave
a bond for his appearance At preiimin-
airy hearing this afternoon, but Irwin
is being held for lack Of money TO FUR
nish bond.
Deputy Frank Deviin. and State
Law Enforcement officer Jack Allen
made h arrests. n Will be chief
Witnesses at the hearing.
, 1922-07-28
TranscontipentaI
Hikers inC Casper
On Wayt to Coast

"No. we're not troubled in the
least about The tie-up which may
come by the railroad strike. Did yoJ
say that gasoline had gone down
in price? Really. we hadn't thought
about It,"
Allan o. Geertz. NJ. A. this years
graduate OF Cornell. and Richard c.
wertz Phi b. of Brown university
blew into Casper about Z o'clock
last night. dressed in hiking clothes.
and carrying packs which contained
the bare necessities OF q comfortable
sleep. On each pack were printed
the words: From New York TO
San Francisco"
Tho two mep started from New
York on July 1 and have Travelled
$40 milea. coming up by way Of
Denver.
"oh. no. We haven't hiked sl that
distance" said Geertz. "Our inten-
ton has been merely TO see the
country without payment Of carfnre
and without riding in box cars. No
objections TO other modes OF travel"
, 1922-07-28
TENANT IS FINED FOR
AssAULTING LANDLORD

W. L. Prevo, found guilty last even,
ing in police court of giving his land
lord. Lee Charles, a good working
over as he termed IT. was fined s25
for creating n disturbance. and was
placed under a $3.50 bond to keep the
peace hereafter.
Following Charles attempt TO force
to remove an automobile n a
number Of other articles from the
ialleyway near his home. q fight en-
sued andsC Charles received the worst of
the battle. 1t is said by witnesses that
'Prevosemployed the services OF a large
club sand that Charles bruised face is
tho result OF . blow from the club.
and not from Prevo'sl fist.
, 1922-07-28

Thsy stated that they had been
very anxious to reach Casper in time
TO enjoy the Inequalities Of the
tourist camping groands. OF which
they had heard the reputation all
along the road
They viii 90 through the park and
then on by Oregon Gcertz. who has
4 position with Pennsylvania rail-
road. has a pass back tosNew York
and In going to take advantage OF IT
Wertz says his intention Is to go
through thu Panama canal on his
way back and up the Atlantic coast
He made no mention ofsstopping off
at Cuba