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...shipment of 105 double-decker beds was moved into the basement of Matthews Hall yesterday, but University officials refused to disclose specifically their purpose. The nature of the cots indicate that either Army or Navy personnel may use them or that they are intended for the execution of the plan to raise the capacity of Houses and dormitories...
...matches were extremely close, with Tom Sears and Bill Frothingham winning theirs. Decker Orr and Orme Wilson both lost by narrow margins, while Gaylen Felt took the first two games from H. S. Howes, individual state champion, before he was beaten...
Died. Karl Decker, 73, damsel-rescuing Hearst reporter of the Spanish-American War; in Manhattan. A series of articles he wrote on Spain's cruelty to Cubans was credited with an assist toward the U.S. declaration of war on Spain. One midnight with a party of Cubans he spirited beautiful 18-year-old Evangelina Cisneros, daughter of a Cuban revolutionary, out of a Havana jail cell. Her window bars were filed, she was hoisted to the roof by rope and taken in boy's clothing to a chartered steamer. On her arrival in Manhattan she got a heroine...
...House masters would double up on the larger single and double rooms, either by moving beds into the studies or by using double-decker beds in the bedrooms and putting an extra desk in each suite, the cost of the rooms from $380 on up to the fantastic top of $500 could be cut almost in half and divided betwen the occupants. No room in the House system, despite a view of the Charles or a second floor location is worth five times as much as another room. If the top prices can be cut out, the House...
...radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York, promised to have his beauty back in Newport News by Wednesday of this week. There workmen will pull out her luxury trappings, install three-and four-decker bunks in her cabins, paint her Navy grey, perhaps arm her with 5-in. guns for her new life as a transport. Built to carry 1,200 passengers in the North Atlantic trade, she will be able to carry about 3,500 soldiers or Marines...