Indiana man must eat dog on election bet

PRINCETON, Ind. -- Geo F. Bryant, a paint maker, wagered a luxuriant crop of side whiskers and fine bulldog against $20 as evidences of his faith that Shull: the Republican candidate for mayor, would be elected Tuesday.

Shull was over whelmingly defeated. It now develops that a further condition of the bet was that, in the event Bryant lost the dog was to be killed and made into bologna sausage, and in the presence of a committee, he was to eat one link of it.

75 years ago

Miss Earnhart denies she married Putnam

WASHINGTON -- Miss Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across the Atlantic, said last night there was "not one word of truth" in reports that she and George Palmer Putnam, New York publisher, had been married.

Asked if she had been to Noank, Conn., recently, she replied:

"Oh, yes I go up there quite frequently."

She added however, she knew nothing of a marriage license being issued there to her and Putnam.

"Some time in the next fifty years I may be married," she explained laughing.

50 years ago

Nun at St. Francis dies

Sister Mary Magdalene Wendel, 69, a teacher at St. Francis Academy, died at 12:40 o'clock this morning at the Academy, following a stroke.

She was born Dec. 3, 1885, at Olpe, Kan., and on Dec. 2, 1932, she entered St. Francis Convent to become a Sister in the Order of St. Francis. She is survived by one sister, Sister Mary Genevieve Wendel, also of the St. Francis Academy.