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Michael Joseph Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, recovering from pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, was disturbed and annoyed by the description of a most lamentable event. A henchman had opened the Archbishop's safe to ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should...
...Fulton, Mo., last fortnight, a newsgatherer gazed upon a board containing 100 circlets of human hair in every conceivable color. The circlets were tied with ribbons. Under each was a woman's name, an address. Five insets adorned the board, four containing tin-types of handsome human females coifed and prinked as was the fashion 35 years ago. The fifth inset, placed in the midst of the collection, showed a young man of Apollonian mien?crisp, curly hair, square forehead, forceful jaw, roguish eye. That was the way one J. Roy Tucker, now a slightly bald, portly...
...President. ¶Mrs. Coolidge set to work on the $50,000 repairing of the White House. The Green Room has faded, must be done over. The elevator, plumbing, vacuum-cleaning system must be modernized. Floors must be painted, rugs replaced. From the storehouse Mrs. Coolidge brought forth a table inset with brass; also, a chair of President Jackson's, which she placed in Mr. Coolidge's study. ¶The President, with a company of the great, attended the 40th spring dinner of the Gridiron Club (composed of Washington newspaper correspondents). A "circus" provided burlesques of "Ringmaster Butler," "the Miami twins...