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Bulls, Ancient and Modern; Bulls and Blunders; and More Bulls and Blunders are three bulky volumes upon which rest the chief claims to distinction of Sir James Campbell Percy, Irish journalist and director of the Central Hotel, Dublin. Last week Sir James spoke at London before a quaint society, the Scroptimists Club. His subject: Bulls. His words, in part...
Superior, Wis., is a progressive town with shiny buildings, civic pride and a school board.This school board, headed by the Rev. A. T. Ekblad and backed by the Mayor, intends to prepare Superior children for "life" (i. e., business). In Central High School there has been for 23 years a popular teacher, Lulu J. Dickinson, who preaches the humanities and tries to steer her pupils toward college. On March 14, the school board ousted her because she had been twitting its members before her classes. Forthwith, sly pupils wrote on blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool...
...mountains were hewn 2,500,000 cubic metres of dirt and rock to make a tube nearly three times as large as a two-track railway tunnel. It forms the most important link in a series of canals and dikes that will unite the Rhone River and Central France with Marseilles, buzzing port...
Since Dec. 21, when these flyers started from San Antonio, Tex., they had visited Mexico and Central America, skirted the long western coast of South America, soared over the towering Andes at a height of 12,000 feet, followed South America's east coast to the West Indies. They had covered some 17,000 miles, personally carried the "good will" of the U. S. to every Central and South American nation, arrived at the end of their long trip on scheduled time. Through tropic storms, landing in places where no plane had been before, four of these amphibian planes...
President Patrick Edward Crowley of the New York Central R.R. last week asked permission of the Interstate Commerce Commission to become a director of the Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R., in which his company recently bought a one-sixth interest, and of four W.&L.E. subsidiaries. Under the law, which aims to prevent the nefarious interlocking of railroad directorates, he was required to submit to the I.C.C. the names of railroads in which he already is a director. There were 102 railroads in his list. So when the I.C.C. grants his latest request, Mr. Crowley, nicknamed "Pull 80 Cars...