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Singles: Robb won, 6-1, 8-6; Tobias lost, 1-6, 3-4; Gordon won, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Bacon won, 6-3, 6-3; Reese won, 6-2, 9-7; Munns won, 2-6, 7-5, 6-2; Edison won, 6-1, 6-1; Krogius lost, 4-6, 3-6; Campbell won, 6-3, 2-6, 6-0; Dixon lost, 0-6, 1-6; Kozol...
Doubles: Bacon and Price lost, 1-6, 2-6; Robb and Reese won, 7-5, 8-6; Clark and Campbell won, 6-2, 6-3; Tobias and Edison won, 6-2, 6-4; Ellis and Krogius drew because of darkness...
Currently on home grounds is one of the most nearly perfect films since Edison began having bright ideas. "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" is a story about gold and the effect that it has on three men who search for it. The expedition takes place in the Mexican mountains, where bandits are more common than gold veins, so the tale is as exciting as it is psychologically curious...
Meanwhile, Kirkland partly atoned for a seven-game losing streak by smearing the Gold Coasters 45 to 27. Edison paced the winners with 17 points while Bixby accounted for ten. Manoff and Crafts led Adams with 12 and 9 markers respectively...
...change began with the phonograph. The machine which Edison invented in 1877 was an impractical toy which, as its needle scratched a cylinder of tin foil, made noises like a man strangling to death. The commercial "gramophones" which followed (colloquially called screech boxes) were not much better. But the early disc phonographs, which delivered both Caruso and Cohen on the Telephone, were too delightful to be resisted. The speed with which they became a national obsession was reflected by the financial statements of the Victor Talking Machine Co., which did $500 worth of business in 1901 and $12 million...