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...number of lady members of the Riverside Tennis Club of Hoboken, N. J., have organized a foot-ball (spelled or mis-spelled "foot-boll") team to be composed entirely of ladies...
...insight into the problems of advertisers. To the irrepressible, sometimes irresponsible, advertiser, P. I. has been a fond but strict mother. At the instigation of John Irving Romer, editor of P. I. from 1908 until his death in 1933, a model statute, making untrue or misleading advertising a mis demeanor, was drawn up in 1911. Today the model is law in 25 States...
...letter and the demand came as a result of a mis-understanding between members of the Leverett House Committee and an informal group of House representatives. The Rabbit men, believing that an agreement had been reached whereby each was to have only one dance during the football season, cancelled plans for a second dance the night after the Army game, and decided to take a loss of some $150, since the orchestra had already been signed...
...privilege, and honesty over corruption, this statement focuses serious attention on the District Attorney's office, for it is there that the enforcement of all laws in the City begins. And it is there, where a lone Tammany stalwart has held out during the last four years, that Tammany mis-government has traditionally reigned supreme...
...generally in vincible." He waxed his mustache, got into the Ecuadorian cavalry, was all set for adventure when he came down with jaundice, ran out of money, made his way with great difficulty to Guayaquil only to find the port quarantined with bubonic plague. There the innocent soldier of mis fortune hit a real romantic adventure. Late at night he picked up a mysterious Chilean girl, a little plump and strangely absentminded, but pretty. He took her to his hotel. He ran out to get something to drink, found her in bed, moaning piteously when he returned. The plague...