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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial Family, "with a realistic grasp of the situation, went into mourning for but three days. The nation was deprived of cinema performances for two days as a mark of minimum respect. Some hundreds of little girls came voluntarily to stand and pray outside the palace at which Death came to a Princess whose name may be translated ''Eternal Happiness...
Died. Thomas Sawyer, onetime railroader, original of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer according to his sister, Mrs. Flaville Pineo of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; in Tucson, Ariz. No such thing, commented Cyril Clemens, second cousin of Author Twain. He added that "Tom Sawyer" was a composite character...
...others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure car depression of the early part of the War, as a nucleus for the development in 1925 of the Chrysler, now a highly successful international leader...
...Vestal robs him of none of his glory. His marksmanship is still deadly, his virtue is still above the ordinary, and his adventures are still hair-raising. But he now becomes something which he never was before--a human being. Several times he misses his mark; he was, if often more crafty, several times outwitted by the Indians; and his exceptional virtue did not prevent his twice marrying without benefit of clergy...
Below are listed the returns of the Presidential nomination poll conducted in six colleges and universities. These results mark the first indication of the trend of student opinion regarding the Presidential timber...