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Harry Kurtz, a member of the 1949 Big Red football team holds, the game ball from their victory over Clarksburg Washington Irving. Their victory was dedicated to Jimmy Rollins. The ball was signed by every member of the football team. Kurtz would later marry Jimmy Rollins’ twin sister, Joan. (Photo by Bob Enoch)
The item that follows was taken from “Highlights on Sports,” by W.A. (Bill) Babcock, and appeared in the Oct. 20, 1949 edition of The Parkersburg Sentinel:
Jimmy Rollins and the 1949 Clarksburg Washington Irving Football Game will be remembered by the Big Red football players and all the fans who saw the game. The fans did not realize at the time the significance of the part which the desperately sick Jimmy Rollins had in that game, but everyone who saw the game could not help but be aware, in retrospect, of the effect on the players of the telegram received by Coach Scott at half time advising him of Jimmy’s death but expressing the belief t
S.F. s strangest bar had monkeys, parrots and cobwebs. Lots of cobwebs
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Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace on Francisco Street was one of the most popular taverns in the city in the mid-19th century, and was definitely the strangest.File photoShow MoreShow Less
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Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace, a North Beach tavern of the 19th century, with its namesake cobwebs visible.Wyland Stanley CollectionShow MoreShow Less
From the Gold Rush days to almost the turn of the 20th century, the weirdest bar in San Francisco, if not the world, was in a dilapidated building on the waterfront in North Beach. It was known as Abe Warner’s Cobweb Palace, and its like will never be seen again.
CRUGER, Miss. (AP) She was buried along a bank of the Yazoo River near Cruger, preserved by alcohol in a metal and glass coffin. Her red velvet dress, cape and buckled shoes indicated she died in the mid-1800s. But the identity of the Lady in Red remains a mystery, some 60 years after her body was discovered. “The unidentified woman was discovered a few days ago in a metal, glass-lined casket in a garden plot on Egypt Plantation and near the.
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February 16, 2021
Chief William Emerson Higgins, 82, of Salisbury, Md., passed away Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, at Tidal Health Peninsula Regional. Born in Seaford, he was the son of the late Emerson G. Higgins and Sarah Elizabeth Graham Higgins.
Bill, also known as “Pinky,” was a 1956 graduate of Seaford High School. He earned his nickname from wearing pink socks in high school. In 1959 Bill was appointed as a police officer with the Seaford Police Department. He retired in 1980 as a lieutenant after 21 years of service. He also served as chief of the Seaford Volunteer Fire Department. In 1980, he was appointed deputy chief of the City of Salisbury Fire Department and served in that position until 1992 at which time he was selected to be the fire chief. In 2000, he retired and worked part time with the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office in Court Security. He was involved with leadership and administrative duties at Salisbury Fire Station No. 2 up to the t