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...erratic and off poise, plainly showed annoyance at linesmen and noisy gallery. Tilden's professional troupe, which includes also Vincent Richards and Bruce Barnes, will tour some 60,000 mi. this year through the U. S., Europe and the Orient...
...under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...
...mounts out of some preliminaries, bringing them into the main event in the pink of condition. Performance showed their wisdom. Capt. Ernst Hallberg led off on Aida. a magnificent brown mare from the stables of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. No faults. Then Lieut. Herbert Sachs on the grey gelding Orient. No faults. Finally Count Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen on brown Kornett. In a breathless minute he, too. made a perfect circuit. No team could beat the Swedes. The Canadians, Czechs and Irish disqualified themselves from chances of a tie, even proud Gallowglass refusing a jump...
East, published in Shanghai by the Shanghai Post-Mercury Co., edited by Joseph Coughlin who used to run the Carmel, Calif. Carmelite, is the "Newsweekly of the Orient." It copies TIME'S makeup, runs a brief department called "The Week in Miniature" as well as a portrait on the cover...
...became a teacher, then a principal, then president of Iowa's State Agricultural College. With no newspaper experience he bought and edited the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, made money on the side from mines, steel mills, realty. Wiped out in the panic of 1893, he went to the Orient to recoup, spotted a chance in Korea where rich ore deposits were being crushed by hand, got concessions, sent for U. S. machinery. First to grow cotton in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he unfolded one evening at the White House dinner table a glowing description of African big-game hunting which...