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Although he is a strict disciplinarian, Principal Hoxton is popular among his boys, whom he calls "Ol Bill" or "Ol Joseph." Long abandoned is the old school rule that "no student .shall sing any Negro or low song," but such practices as smoking and drinking are strictly regulated. Prime aim of the school is to turn out "Christian gentlemen." Its honor system is scrupulously enforced. The boys themselves once stoned from the grounds a student caught stealing...
...more for you in six years than ol' Alben got you in 26 years." -Governor Albert B. Chandler at Mayfield...
...novel Emile, wherein that 18th-Century romantic tried to persuade French mothers to nurse their own children. Persuaded in his turn, Needham bequeathed money for an annual prize ($100 to $200) for the healthiest white Louisville baby nine to 15 months old. "nourished by its mother for a period ol at least nine months...
...Sayman set up his St. Louis soap factory in 1894, erected a glass case near the entrance and installed therein the stuffed skin of Dolly, the horse that had pulled him many a mile in his itinerant days. Fond of flourishing his blue-steel revolver, which he called "Ol' Becky True-heart," he was not infrequently arrested, but the St. Louis police were never severe with him because, in addition to numerous benefactions to the poor, he always gave $500 to any officer who shot & killed a robber...
Died. Percy Lee ("Don't Call Me Percy") Gassaway, 51, Oklahoma's romping onetime (1935-36) "Cowboy Congressman"; of heart disease; in Coalgate, Okla. Celebrated for his ten-gallon hat, shoestring tie and wing collar, "Ol' Gass" declared that every judge should have at least five years experience at poker before taking office, boosted the Association for the Prevention of Taking Off Hats in Elevators...