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Rat-Hole-Man & Kitchener. As the Commission last week pondered testimony and considered the U. S. claim that Germany ought to pay $40,000,000 compensation for Black Tom and Kingsland, cables told that Death had come to a London youth, whose trade was repairing holes gnawed by wharf rats...
Last week a few U. S. citizens with sporting friends abroad were eating grouse -plump red Scotch grouse sent by express steamers and heralded by cables giving warning of their shipment. For a fortnight the shotguns that the Scotch call "double pipe scatter guns" had been popping on the moors...
The chief reason for his great productivity is that he has applied the methods of big business to the art of invention. His is the idea and the plan of work, but the execution is for his subordinates, who never question his drawings. In 24 hours he drew a complete...
In Tanga, port of Tanganyika (before the War, German East Africa), Britons seethed with righteous indignation last week, wrote letters to the papers, sent cables to the Foreign Office, demanded the withdrawal of German Consul, Herr Speiser.
Joao Pessoa, assassinated President (Governor) of the State of Parahyba, lay in his coffin in Recife, State of Pernambuco last week and no one dared take him home. News of his death, escaping over foreign cables, lifted one corner of the veil of secrecy which has shrouded affairs in Parahyba...