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June 28, 1925

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Headlines from June 28, 1925

FLOOD FROM ARARAT DELUGES ERIVAN; Many Lives Lost and Thousands Made Homeless in Armenia -- Near East Relief Gives Aid.

By Unknown Author

Flood from Mt Ararat deluges Erivan

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CHANDLER DEFEATS HOLMAN FOR TITLE; U. of California Star Wins College Tennis Crown in Four-Set Final at Merion. COAST TEAM TRIUMPHANT Hillis and Stratford of California Beat Jones and Watson of Yale for Doubles Honors.

By Special to The New York Times

Singles title won by E G Chandler

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MAHARAJA'S FOUR REPELS U.S. ARMY; Jodphur's Poloists Easily Dispose of American International Champions by 13 to 3. INDIANS EXCEL ALL THE WAY Our Military Titleholders Stale After Defeating; British Twice in a Row Recently. MAHARAJA'S FOUR REPELS U.S. ARMY

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON, June 27. -- It was an Indian field day at Hurlingham when the Jodhpur polo team, composed of the best players in India, this afternoon swept the American Army four -- the international army champions -- completely from the field and with a score of 13 to 3 gave them one of the worst beatings they ever experienced.

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NATURE REBUKES MR. BRYAN; Henry Fairfield Osborn Anticipates the Evolution Trial in Tennessee

By van Buren Thorne

IN the seasoned opinion of Henry Fairfield Osborn, naturalist, philosopher and President of the American Museum of Natural History. William Jennings Bryan and not John Thomas Scopes is to be the man on trial in Tennessee next month to settle the question: "Did God use evolution as His plan" in the creation of the world and all that lives and moves therein?

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BUTLER TAKES SEAT IN FRENCH ACADEMY; President of Columbia, Third American so Honored, Eulogizes Predecessor, Viscount Bryce. ENDORSES HIS PEACE WORDS And Agrees That Nations Have "as Much to Gain by Cooperation as by Competition." BUTLER TAKES SEAT IN FRENCH ACADEMY

By Wireless To the New York Times

PARIS, June 27. -- President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, New York, before a large gathering of France's most distinguished scientists and leaders of thought took his seat today in the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, to which he was elected in 1923 in succession to the late Viscount Bryce.

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1925Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (born 1861)^[†]

Georgina Febres-Cordero, also known as "Mother Georgina" was a Venezuelan religious sister.

1925Henry C. Berghoff, German-American politician (born 1856)^[†]

Henry Carl Berghoff was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman who co-founded the Herman Berghoff Brewing Company in 1887 and served as the 19th Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1901 to 1906.

Headlines from June 28, 1925

FLOOD FROM ARARAT DELUGES ERIVAN; Many Lives Lost and Thousands Made Homeless in Armenia -- Near East Relief Gives Aid.

CHANDLER DEFEATS HOLMAN FOR TITLE; U. of California Star Wins College Tennis Crown in Four-Set Final at Merion. COAST TEAM TRIUMPHANT Hillis and Stratford of California Beat Jones and Watson of Yale for Doubles Honors.

MAHARAJA'S FOUR REPELS U.S. ARMY; Jodphur's Poloists Easily Dispose of American International Champions by 13 to 3. INDIANS EXCEL ALL THE WAY Our Military Titleholders Stale After Defeating; British Twice in a Row Recently. MAHARAJA'S FOUR REPELS U.S. ARMY

NATURE REBUKES MR. BRYAN; Henry Fairfield Osborn Anticipates the Evolution Trial in Tennessee

BUTLER TAKES SEAT IN FRENCH ACADEMY; President of Columbia, Third American so Honored, Eulogizes Predecessor, Viscount Bryce. ENDORSES HIS PEACE WORDS And Agrees That Nations Have "as Much to Gain by Cooperation as by Competition." BUTLER TAKES SEAT IN FRENCH ACADEMY

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