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From the St. Paul Dispatch, there appeared a highly amusing story, by Reporter Julian Sargent, about "the girl of the athletic nose" ; from the Baltimore Sun, an ingenious piece involving a Chinaman whom the police mistook for a Yellow Peril when he did his own surveying for a new laundry...
With the necessary passports secured, money telegraphed ahead to post offices of the larger western cities, and with a letter to General Wu Pei Fu safely stowed in the dispatch box, the expedition left Pekin in August. It went to Cheng Chow on the Pekin-Hankow railroad, then west to the end of the railroad that will some day connect the coast with the western provinces...
Shortly after this, just before the tomb was finally sealed to await Dr. Reisner's arrival in Egypt, the New York Times published a Cairo dispatch to the London Times which stated as the opinion of an expert geologist that the tomb was that of Sneferuw...
...contradiction with the statement made by Dr. Reisner that the tomb discovered by the Harvard-Boston expedition to Egypt was not the tomb of Sneferuw, the New York Times prints a dispatch from Cairo to the London Times saying that prominent Egyptologists agree that the Reisner Expedition's discovery is undoubtedly the tomb of Sneferuw, although the precarious situation of the shall makes accurate observation impossible. The dispatch to the London Times reads as follows...
...Yale squash racquets team is definitely entered in the national tournament to be held in Buffalo, N. Y., on February 21, 22, and 23, according to a special dispatch from New Haven last night...