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...rage; in 1906 he was the target for a bullet that killed him." The facts are that a bomb was placed at the gate opening into the lawn of the Governor's home in Caldwell. When the Governor opened the gate he was literally blown up. Harry Orchard confessed to having placed the bomb and was sentenced to prison for life...
...Cherry Orchard. This, by all accounts, is the best play ever written by famed Anton Chekhov; which, for many intelligent persons, makes it the best modern play written by anyone at all. It was previously offered to Manhattan audiences, in highly pantomimic Russian, by the Moscow Art Theatre, thereby allowing its witnesses to detect, beneath a bucket of gibberish, the light of an inextinguishable beauty. Presented now in carpentered English, for a series of special matinees, the glory of the play is more than ever dimmed. Its simple story, of a helter-skelter family of aristocrats who have squandered their...
...weather persistently spat drizzle and squall in the face of the proposed flight, holding the aviatrix and her copilot, George Haldeman, at Roosevelt field, L. I. Another aviatrix, Mrs. Francis Grayson, appeared on the scene, ready to snatch the honor of being first woman over by hopping from Old Orchard, Maine. Then, Miss Elder took off?weather or no weather...
...first of Manhattan's tabloid newspapers. Under his daring guidance it became an undreamed of success. Such a success that William Randolph Hearst engaged Mr. Payne to edit his New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror. The Mirror jumped amazingly in circulation. Last week Philip A. Payne jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in Mr. Hearst's airplane the Old Glory; splashed into the rough and foggy sea, disappeared...
...mouthpieces which distill a cup of water from the breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...