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...full days of pranks, parades, politics. Time & Place. An activity which jumped the official gun was the scramble by four big U. S. cities for next year's convention site. At stake were civic prestige, acres of publicity and $10,000,000 in Legion spending money. Booster delegations outdid themselves in their efforts to ingratiate themselves with the conventioneers in general, the potent Committee on Time & Place in particular...
Attacking said cow, which belongs to the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, armed only with a hacksaw and speeded by the well wishes of the mob, the Colonel outdid himself in consummating the capture alive, in contrast to his epic adventure with the skunk last spring. Fred Hoeing, notorious woodchuck tracker, Harvard's other big game hunter, last night sent the Colonel his hearty congratulations by telegraph, collect...
...candidates for President-General tested their strength by rival teas. Mrs. Becker, with Mrs. Magna to help her, served ice cream, cake and punch at the Mayflower Hotel, drew 3,000 Daughters and friends. At the Willard, Mrs. Gillentine, serving only lemonade, drew a scant 2,000 but outdid her rival with a string of celebrities including Speaker of the House Joseph Wellington Byrns and his wife...
Milwaukee's two biggest dailies outdid themselves in their enthusiasm to "assist parents in finding things for children to do" while underfoot at home. Hearst's Wisconsin News elaborately offered each day's lessons to the 25,000 marooned tots. The Journal got primary teachers themselves to broadcast to their pupils twice daily...
...Blease, Georgia's Watson, Louisiana's Long, Mississippi's Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is the fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven 'all the good niggers' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking a U. S. Senator...