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...front page a three-column drawing of the girl's family and dog in their home. The Chicago Tribune might feel called upon to print an 8-column banner: SCAN SLAIN GIRL'S LOVE DIARY. The Atlanta Constitution, San Francisco Examiner, Milwaukee Sentinel, Cincinnati Enquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Indianapolis News might go for the story, as go for it they did. So did the newspapers of Boston, so energetically that Andrew J. Peters, onetime Boston Mayor, whose wife was a distant cousin of Starr Faithfull's mother, found occasion to issue a formal denial that...
...cases, the court in eight months acted on 892, compared with 794 the term before. In none of the 113 cases which will go over to the next term has counsel filed briefs or made any argument. To Chief Justice Hughes goes chief credit for the court's dispatch. Following the methods of William Howard Taft, he has kept the court abreast of its docket by having all petitions for review, particularly those in criminal cases, acted upon in a week or so, winnowing out the real questions from the dilatory technicalities. Fortnight ago the Supreme Court refused...
During the reading period the Vagabond is able to dispatch all his mundane business in the course of the day, unhampered as he is by the press of lectures. In the evenings he is left free to wander carelessly in those sequestered spots which fancy dictates. Upon occasion the lights of Boston "flaring like a dreary dawn" beckon him over the river to while away the evening hours. In the course of his peregrinations intellectual needs often give way to the more physical delights of food and nourishment. The old fellow has happened upon many an interesting and delectable dish...
Rogers caught sight of a man standing alone in an abandoned filling station, blindfolded. He went to him?Dr. Kelley?and was told: "The men who let me out here said John Rogers of the Post-Dispatch will take you home. Do what he tells...
Various fantastic aspects of the case remained uncleared last week. The family stoutly denied a persistent report that $100,000 ransom had been paid. Xo other motive for the kidnapping was offered; no explanation of why the Post-Dispatch and Reporter Rogers were selected to reap the glory (Rogers was given a bonus of one year's salary?said to exceed $6,000?for his scoop). Opposition papers boldly hinted that the Post-Dispatch was withholding