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...part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic by letting them bite ten short-term convicts' in Jackson, Miss.: pardons from Mississippi's Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner for two of the volunteers, suspended sentences for the rest...
HARVARD BROWN England, g. g., Tolman Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Thodford Stent, l.f.b. l.f.b., Hunt Roosevelt, r.h.b. r.h.b., Watson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hart Gummere, l.h.b. l.h.b., Howard Grover, r.o.f. r.o.f., Dyer Clos, r.i.f. r.i.f., Conner Manheimer, c.f. c.f., Murray Stork, l.i.f. l.i.f., Knott Baxter, l.o.f. l.o.f., Allen...
...meet hotel bills, seek escape by disguising themselves as two Italian organ grinders. Young Gretchen, a burgomaster's daughter, is suspected of wanting to elope in order to avoid marriage with the Governor of Zeeland. She is consequently imprisoned in a haunted mill. The two Americans, ConKidder and Kid Conner, rescue her. This unexpected disappearance from the mill occasions the offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting this, the two Americans change their disguise to that of the English detective...
...summary: HARVARD BROWN England, g. g., Tolman Robinson, W. Wemple, r.f.b. l.h.b., Bauman, Thedford Gammere, l.f.b. r.f.b., Whitehead, Eberstudt Waters, r.h.b. l.h.b., Tulp Ware, Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Ware Eaton, l.h.b. r.h.b., Jones Schumacher, r.o. l.o., Allen Clos, r.i. l.i., Wellman Grover, c.f. c.f., Conner Stork, Whitney, l.i. r.i., Knott Baxter, l.o. r.o., Fuller, Felton...
...Mississippi* last week 9,000 disgruntled whites, led by a Negro jazz band, stormed the State Capitol at Jackson to tell Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner what they thought of a 3% retail sales tax as passed by the State House. "We want Mike! We want Mike!" was the mob's raucous shout as it shuffled from the rotunda toward the Governor's office. Was he in? Some said he was-locked in. Others insisted he was at a downtown hotel. Before the crowd finally drifted out of the Capitol, it left pinned on Governor Conner...