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...team which plays for the University of Nebraska as "Cornhuskers," merely for want of a better name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train as it pulled out of Lincoln...
...Kitty Hawk that cold December week, Wilbur and Orville Wright tossed a coin to decide which would try the first flight. Wilbur won, got into the machine, rose a few feet. After three seconds the machine stalled. Next it was Orville's turn. He succeeded; he sustained the flight of a kite...
Conservative U. S. journals printed the story as a matter of minor, passing interest. New York's Daily News (tabloid) saw. however, a chance to coin a scurrility, headlined: "DeadEye Davy Bags Elephant in Afric Wilds...
Lighted Cigarets. A coin dropped in the slot of a new machine makes a cigaret fall with its end against an incandescent electric coil. The heat lights the cigaret, which forthwith drops out of the machine for the buyer to smoke on his matchless way. One William Cohen of Brooklyn invented the device...
Some of the merchants are like that, too. Where there is so much good coin flooding the market to be had by the highest bidder, they hang out their showiest sign, and purchasers come and buy. And when they have bought and become in a manner members of the firm, the company tries to find work to keep the, busy to justify the name of the house. But the original stock was watered, and no amount of artificial ginger can give it life...