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Tonight at 7:15 o'clock the Pierian Sodality opens its 130th anniversary season with a sight-reading evening in Sanders Theatre. Club members state that the session of "cord and discord" will last until it stops...
...anchor in the scummy waters of Manhattan's East River, off 130th Street, lolled the 50-ft. white yacht Josephine with a red work flag flying at her masthead. For weeks & weeks Josephine had gone undisturbed about her business until one day last month the big seagoing tug Terminal bustled up, dropped anchor, went to work. From the Josephine came indignant cries of "poacher!" The men of Terminal retorted that nobody owned the river. A Coast Guard cutter appeared, ordered the tug to keep clear of the cables on the bottom. By last week the magic word GOLD...
...Year's Day 1895, the proprietor of a Manhattan saloon at Third Avenue and 130th Street greased his hair, breathed on his diamond stickpin and departed to pay his New Year calls, leaving the bar in charge of a 17-year-old Russian boy who was working nights in order to study art by daylight. It was a rough night, and to the Harlem barflies the boy looked easy. Shouting, swearing they demanded free drinks. The young bartender set up one on the house. That only made things worse. The boy, thoroughly frightened, snatched a revolver from the till...
...National celebration in honor of 130th anniversary of death of Count Casimir Pulaski, at Savannah, Ga., where he was mortally wounded aiding George Washington. In Michigan, a drive to collect an endowment fund for a Chair of Polish history and literature at the University of Michigan...
...University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) celebrated its 130th anniversary, was informed by Glenn Frank, President-elect of the University of Wisconsin: "The educational world is caught in the sweep of a Safety first' movement. . . . It may be that the most serious need of the human race just now is comic relief...