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...less effective within its range. To demonstrate it at the Waco Cotton Fair, he hitched a mule to a two-wheeled wagon which bore the contraption, a pump that sucked air like a vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with a soft hiss sucked the white bolls from brittle pods. A swift-handed picker can gather several hundred pounds...
...most tremendous drum that has ever echoed among the colonnades of the Stadium, will be one of the peculiar features of the Purdue football invasion of Cambridge next Saturday. This drum is ten feet in diameter and will have to be pulled around on a three-wheeled go-cart...
Sporting England flocked to murky Liverpool, there to watch the greatest of steeplechases. By plane, motor, train, boat, cart they came and, despite fabled post-War depression, proved so numerous that luxurious Cunard liner Aurania, 14,000 tons, lying at her dock, became an ephemeral hostelry at a, guinea "and up" per bunk, thus saving many an onlooker from a damp night on the moors or pub floors. The morning brought black skies, torrential rains. Sporting Eng land, drenched, excited, gathered at the famed Aintree course; issued 150,000 prayers for better weather; surveyed the soggy turf and swollen streams...
There are a number of interesting pictures on exhibition as well as these books. Among these is a photograph of John the Orangeman sitting in his cart, and another is a reproduction in colour of an old engraving, called "A Prospect of the Colledges in Cambridge in New England," showing Harvard and Massachusetts Halls...
...executed by order of the Soviet Cabinet in the Lubianka prison, Moscow. Callous, the Soviet executor merely walked into the room where stood Prince Dolgorukovo, drew a revolver, and shot him, without preliminaries, in the back of the head. Soon the corpse of Prince Dolgorukovo was flung into a cart with those of 18 executed criminals, dumped with these into a common grave...