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...customer today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stored by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while she was walking with another fine lady and with one of her favored dogs." ¶ On her 49th birthday, the First Lady entertained Inventor Guglielmo Marconi & wife at luncheon, gave tea to the ladies at the A. F. of L. convention, had a quiet family dinner...
...Beta Kappas, in whose learned magazine The American Scholar this description of a future face appeared this week. know Dr. Thomas Hall Shastid of Duluth. as a serious, prodigious eye specialist, lawyer, novelist, translator, editor, inventor, pacifist.* His pastime is to visit zoos with an ophthalmoscope with which he peers into the eyes of fish, birds, snakes and beasts. Doing likewise, remarks he in his Phi Beta Kappa article, "will prove an event in the lives of most scientists. Nor, strange to say, are very many animals averse to the use on their eyes of that instrument of investigation...
...politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
...graft. The resultant reform movement sent Tammany Boss Richard Croker scurrying to exile in Ireland, by huge majorities elected William L. Strong mayor, made Theodore Roosevelt commissioner of police. Died. Robert Augustus Chesebrough. 96, retired president of Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., inventor of vaseline, a founder of the New York Real Estate Board; of old age; in Spring Lake...
...Menlo Park, Calif, last week Leon F. Douglass, inventor, proudly told the Press a shocker. He had wanted someone for an acting job. The job was to play opposite a 12-ft. octopus in an underwater "death" struggle which he wanted to film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel...