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...Detroit hayloft one morning last week, "Floyd's Club" met in special, solemn session. The members, all newsboys, heard one of their younger brothers, Longin Jendzyenski, 11, tell how he had been beaten up by Joe Przystas, 15, another newsboy but not a Floyd's Clubber. With Longin as their guide, a delegation of three members-Stanley Orlenski, 14, Joe Sawicki, 14, and Anthony Mazur, 14-set out for vengeance. They found Joe Przystas at home carrying a scuttle of coal upstairs. Stanley drew a rifle from his trouser leg, fired at the coal scuttle to frighten...
...were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does the same. This may have been all right in 1921, but it is pretty bad for a sophisticated night-clubber whose favorite amusement is women...
...with pleasure if not glee, while everyone else would be revolted or would scream or faint, as many did last week. Results from this strenuous method of crime detection were said to be "promising," and several arrests were made, though no one was actually charged with being a Crime Clubber last week...