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Sleepy Report. In Oakland, Calif., Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. Gero were reported to have slept while the rug and floor blazed under their bed, slept while the fire apparatus roared up to the house, while the firemen piled in, while they fought the blaze and put it out, and left, carefully locking the door behind them...
...research and propaganda"), a new electric powerhouse, a fleet of modern automobiles (gifts of the manufacturers) to replace the old carriages, electric elevators, 800 telephones (the Pope's telephone is solid gold stamped with the Papal Arms and the trade-mark of International Telephone & Telegraph Co.), a telephoto apparatus, an electric device to replace the bell ringers at St. Peter's. "The fabric of St. Peter's," said a Catholic commentator, "became as modern as the fabric of New York...
...west end of town. Fuld is surrounded by lush Institute acres-site of the Revolutionary Battle of Princeton. The Institute's founders, Louis Bamberger (of the great Newark department store) and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld, have given the scholars $8,000,000 worth of scholarly apparatus and comforts...
Blazes. In Tacoma, an electrical bed-shaking apparatus rigged up by Emmanuel Schrader to wake him at the right time started shaking at the wrong time, went on shaking till it short-circuited, burned the house down. In Dandridge, Tenn., lightning struck Hugh Hunter's cow barn, set it afire, traveled along a pipe to a water tank on a nearby hill, ripped the tank open, let out a stream of water that ran down the hill and put out the fire...
...seized on a painting kit belonging to the children of the house and took his first plunge. He changed to oils the next day, as soon as he could get to a supply shop. Like most amateurs, and very like himself, he at once bought a lot of magnificent apparatus, including portable easels for traveling...