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Tall, handsome, dandyish David Graham Phillips was a man of mark in the days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox...
The newshawks dug into old files, discovered that this was New York's fourth moth invasion. Previous ones: 1862,1908, 1909. The Times, quoting from its own contemporary account, said: "On July 16, 1908, the insects descended upon an amazed city, frightening dowagers and amazing infants. ... A 3-year...
One bright morning last week five Senators and five Representatives marched into the flag-draped room of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs,* banged the door behind them, locked it. Then they took off their coats & waistcoats, rolled up their sleeves, loosened their collars. Cigars were lighted, green cuspidors adjusted...
Near San Benito, Tex., a posse set bloodhounds on the trail of a band of thieves. When the bloodhounds bounded up, the thieves caught them, tied them together by their collars, hung them over a limb. The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the...
"I am reporting to New York members of the Ornery Men's Club the acquisition of a new and noble member?Governor 'Alfalfa Bill? Murray of Oklahoma," said Clubfounder Volney T. Hoggatt of Denver. The Ornery Men's Club was organized in 1900 in the late Sports Promoter George L...