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...Jersey City taxidermist named John Hansen got a letter last week about a friend with whom he used to hunt big game. His friend was Charlie Cottar of Garfield County, Okla., who migrated to East Africa. He went out in 1910, when he was past 40, and he took with him his wife and as much stuff as he could pack in a bullock cart. He cleared 1,000 acres and planted them to coffee, potatoes and sisal, but most of his time he spent as guide to big-game hunters such as Martin Johnson, the Prince of Wales, Phil...
...Passengers of the U. S. liner President Garfield which docked last week in Manhattan told of seeing "6,000 or more" Italian prisoners (probably an exaggeration, for these Italian prisoners must have been taken before the Battle of the Marmarica) aboard the Cunarder Queen Mary in Bombay, en route to prison in Australia, whence the Queen will soon fetch 16,000 more Anzacs for the Middle East. In Bombay also they saw the He de France, idle; at Cape Town, the Queen Elizabeth, at anchor...
...spoilsmen's bodies were figuratively heaped around him. In a daze the House passed the bill, 206-to-139. With Mr. Ramspeck to the White House last week must have marched the ghosts of all the Presidents who have been harassed to desperation by appointments; President James A. Garfield, slain by a disappointed office seeker; perhaps even the shadow of Louis XIV, who said: "Every time I fill a vacant office I make 100 malcontents and one ingrate...
Officers in all Canadian camps were at pains to fraternize with the "trainees"-Minister of National Defense James Garfield ("Halfway") Gardiner ordered that they must not be called "draftees" or "conscripts," and that all heavy camp work must be done by Canadian regulars. Reason: in the short period of training no time could be wasted. An emergency at Long Branch Camp occurred when the automatic potato-peeling machine failed to arrive in time and some of the men had to be asked to sit down with knives and peel potatoes...
...Washington, Garfield, Taft, Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover, who got a second honorary degree from Penn last week...