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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0260 Enlarge and print image (6M) |
| THE JEFFERSONIAN BALTIMORE COUNTY'S SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. TOWSON, MD., OCTOBER 4, 1924. LAST GENERAL THE ARMY.—General John Joseph Pershing, who retired owing to the age limit from his office of United States Chief of Staff on Defense Day, speaking from the reviewing stand on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, to assembled thousands and to an invisible audience of millions over radio. United AS SEEN PROM THE TOP OP THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Defense Day ceremonies In the national capital, with General Pershing and Secretary of War Weeks as the principal speakers on preparedness to the massed troops, with the White House in the background. International DEATH BEAT HIM IN HIS LAST RACE. Jimmy Murphy, veteran speedway racer and leader in points this year for the national championship, who in a 150-mile race at the Syracuse State Fair crashed into a wooden fence, dying Shortly afterw&rd. Wide World Photos COMEDY OF THE SEA. Gus Jordahn of West Palm Beach, Fla.f amazing visitors at that famous resort by riding a 300-pound turtle through the waves despite the desperate efforts of the unwilling steed to "unhorse" njm International ON THE FIELD- WHERE ONCE THEY FOUGHT. Major General LeJeune, Commander of the United States Marine Corps, and Brig. Gen. Dion Williams welcoming at Antietam the veterans who played their part in that famous battle of the Civil War. United PASSING OF A FAMOUS STAR OF THE NATIONAL GAME. Prank Chance, the "Peerless Leader" of the Chicago Nationals when that remarkable aggregation outclassed all its rivals and when the slogan "Tinker to Evers to Chance" marked the ne plus ultra of lightning double plays, who recently died at his California home. "SPOONING" THOUSANDS OP FEET IN THE AIR. Al Wilson, California daredevil, getting the better of inquisitive cops who objected to his courting of his sweetheart, Virginia Brown Faire, in the park by transferring his swain-like activities to the upper wing of a speeding plane. International A MUDDY FD3LD FOR THIS FOOTBALL GAME. Amusing feature at the English regatta off Southend when two "football" teams engaged in an exciting scrimmage from which they emerged plastered from head to foot With mud. International |