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...Tarlac, Philippine Islands, one Colonel Wolfson visited a high school, was invited to examine the pupils. Said he: "I will give a peso (50 cents) to any one who can memorize my full name in 15 minutes." He then took chalk, wrote on the blackboard: Josephus Adolphus Americus Vespucius Leonidus Wol-sicanius Alexandricus Naptalicus Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Wolfson, read amazement on the students' faces, left the room. In 15 minutes, he returned, collected papers. Out of 33 who tried, 23 had memorized his name perfectly...
There have already been biographies and more biographies of Woodrow Wilson. Hardly had the War President died last February, when Josephus Daniels rushed down to his private domain in North Carolina to pen one. Last summer, William Allen White undertook another. But at last an official and authorized biography is to be produced. Mrs. Wilson has announced the undertaking...
...robes), the Diplomatic Corps, the Senate, the House of Representatives, ceased their activities for a day in honor of a dead President. William Jennings Bryan (ex-Sec, of State), Robert Lansing (the same), David Houston (ex-Sec, of Agriculture and of Treasury), A. Mitchell Palmer (ex-Attorney General), Josephus Daniels (ex-Sec, of Navy), William C. Redfield (ex-Sec. of Labor), John Barton Payne (ex-Sec. of Interior), Joseph P. Tumulty, Bernard M. Baruch, Vance McCormick, Frank L. Polk, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Colonel E. M. House, Breckinridge Long came to pay homage to a dead friend and admired leader...
...actual delegates, a small portion of the whole number present, assembled in a great hall filled with State standards, in the best political convention style. Messages were read from Rear Admiral Sims, from Charles P. Donnelly (President of the Northern Pacific Railway), Lord Byng (Governor General of Canada), Josephus Daniels, General Diaz of Italy, Admiral Beatty of England, General Pershing, Major General Lejeune, Secretary Weeks, Secretary Wilbur, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Koontz, Georges Clemenceau, Newton D. Baker, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman...
...Albany, N. Y., one Hector Sin- clair, of Eldorado, Kan., hurried into a second-hand bookstore. He had heard that the vendor possessed a copy of a work for which he had searched for over 50 years-the writings of the Jewish historian, Josephus. Hector paid $2.50, opened his book, beheld his own name on the flyleaf, recognized the volume as one he had lost...