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...Hoylake, England, on the Royal Liverpool golf course, an Irish clothing merchant named Joe Carr beat the defending champion, the U.S.'s Harvie Ward, 2 up, for the British amateur championship...
Waist Gun. In Oakland, Calif., Merchant Seaman Enoch Bershofski, arrested for carrying a sawed-off shotgun inside his jacket, tried to convince police that he needed it to protect his bankroll...
...year, the protector of the nation's disabled and needy, orphans and old folks. In the name of the President and the Public Health Service, she manages one of the world's greatest medical research centers, provides operations for harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education, she distributes funds to land-grant colleges and administers the teacher-student exchange program with foreign countries. She is legally concerned with the problem of tapeworm control among Alaskan caribou, with cancer research, and with...
...this point, the Abolitionists, led by a New York merchant named Lewis Tappan, began to protest. To return the Africans to Spain was to sentence them to death. A legal staff was assembled to defend Cinqué and his people. Sketches of Cinqué, suggesting a rare nobility of nature, roused public support in the North; friends of the Africans quoted William Cullen Bryant's poem...
Fireworks & Philosophy. A merchant's apprentice in Salem, Mass., young Ben Thompson had managed to become something of an astronomer by the time he reached his teens. He was only 13 when the Stamp Act was repealed, but he volunteered to produce a fireworks exhibition for the Salem townsfolk. The display was one of his few failures: Ben was literally hoist with one of his own petards. After a long and painful recuperation, he attended classes in "experimental philosophy" at Harvard, studied a little medicine, and at 20 was teaching school in Concord. N. H. (formerly Rumford, Mass.). There...