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...Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they had bought from scalpers and were sent home. Mrs. Stanley Field dropped a $3,000 brooch, received it back from an honest finder, came next day without jewels. . . . All these things and more happened last week because in Chicago, and then in Philadelphia, the Chicago Cubs played the Philadelphia Athletics for "the baseball championship of the world...
Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path of the beacon, the reeds vibrate uniformly. When the plane is off course, one reed fibrillates faster than the other. The closer the plane is to the beacon, the more intense the vibration. 2) Artificial horizon showed instantly at what angle the plane was flying in relation to the ground...
...taxicab at the Post Graduate Hospital. A few minutes later they discovered that a small black satchel containing 500 milligrams ($30,000 worth) of radium had been left in the cab, each man having thought that another had it. Word was sent to all the newspapers warning the finder to ware burning himself. Next morning a restaurateur a few blocks from the hospital reported discovering the bag under a table in his restaurant. Its intervening experiences were unknown...
...Athens, Tenn., the spider-finder was one Lee Moses. More venturesome or perhaps more literate than the Gilmer spider, the Athenian spider had written "Smith-8-Y." Spiderman Moses* interpreted this to mean, "Smith, eight years" and placed his bets accordingly...
...phonetic-fault-finder Southwick worry less on how Al Smith enunciates and more on how Al meditates. And lest he forgets-a certain Republican president of a very recent administration did not noticeably slur his words but yet he was the cause of innumerable slurs upon his country...