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...caboose to Toledo, then hitchhike to Philadelphia. Jack Grosvenor, 19, bummed rides from Council Bluffs, Iowa, was robbed of his last $10 in Pennsylvania, pushed on penniless. A boy from Buffalo pedaled wearily to Philadelphia on a bicycle, arriving three days late. Most delegates from out-of-town arrived by automobile, were put up by local Christian Endeavorers. They arose at 7 a. m., gathered in Convention Hall for an early "Quiet Hour" of Scriptural reading. Eager and uncritical, they absorbed thin-spread ideas from speakers on marriage, peace, evangelism, social justice, politics. They yielded to the energetic, well-scrubbed...
...Out-of-town and out-of-State subscribers to the Herald, mostly former residents of this village, have been sending in clippings of the story from daily papers wanting to know who Herman Strutter is. Postal cards addressed to Herman Strutter from clipping bureaus, stating that for 10 or 25? they will send him an item of interest have been received. Wise Perry post-office employes place Strutter's mail in the Herald box. Climax was the receipt of advertising from artificial limb companies...
Included in the schedule of out-of-town games is one at Chicago where the Varsity will play a trio of riders from the Windy City indoor league whose agregate handicap will equal Harvard's. This event is sponsored by the Harvard Club of Chicago, to whom the proceeds of the match will go to augment maintainance of the annual scholarship for Illonois students entering Harvard, and is to be the occasion of a local Harvard rally. It will be the first time Harvard has sent a polo team so far afield...
Sensational out-of-town developments of the week included the prosecution's announcement that it was investigating a Bronx garageman's story of repainting Hauptmann's "dirty green" sedan shortly after the crime, and that a Manhattan cinema theatre cashier would say that Hauptmann passed her a $5 ransom bill at a date before Isidor Fisch left the U. S. to die in Germany. Hauptmann's story is that Fisch left the money with him, that he did not "dip into" it until Fisch sailed away...
...their home-town newspapers for the first time in 90 days. Ever since the printers of the arch-Republican Record-Herald (evening) and the arch-Democratic Independent (morning) went on strike over wages in mid-May, the capital of Montana had to depend on bulletins, radio, out-of-town newspapers and grapevine gossip for its news. Last fortnight the printers' strike was settled (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week the Record-Herald and the Independent made their reappearance on the streets and in the homes of Helena...