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...first successful balloon demonstration at night took place at Blue Hill Observatory, in Milton, Mass., at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, under the direction of Dr. Karl O. H. Lange, research assistant; A. E. Bent, and R. D. Feiber, who designed and built the instrument; and C. B. Pear, Jr., who managed the radio reception...
...Shih, Dean of the School of Literature at the National Peking University, was being feted last week at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria by the China Society of America and was toasting China's increased political unity, in Shanghai some courageous Chinese cabaret reveler was throwing a pear core at a marching Japanese bluejacket and thus offending the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Navy. This culminated a series of "incidents" during the past two months. When mysterious individuals in Chinese costume, possibly disguised Japanese agents provocateurs, then fired from ambush in Shanghai, killing a Japanese sailor and wounding...
Within an hour the 2,000 Japanese Marines stationed in Shanghai had been increased by 100 more who occupied the Hongkew section of the International Settlement and brusquely arrested as "suspects" everyone they could lay hands on. Every corner of the night club from which the pear core had been thrown was meanwhile ransacked by Japanese military police who said they were looking for "traces of pear peelings." Abjectly the Chinese night club proprietor made written apology to the Japanese, but by this time Rear-Admiral Eijiro Kondo, Commander of the Shanghai Special Japanese Marine Corps, was clearing his ships...
...fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became Sir John Millais' best known work...
...Albany is a pleasant inconvenience for Dr. Parran. The year Governor Roosevelt called him there he, a widower with four small sons, remarried, and took a big white farmhouse in the hills at Castleton, N. Y.. overlooking the Hudson, ten miles south of Albany. The grounds include a pear and apple orchard, the pruning of which he made one of his hobbies. Other diversions: hunting, riding, training red setters, splitting firewood, baking waffles to eat with Maryland scrapple. Sunday the whole family decorously went to mass in the Roman Catholic Church of the village. After mass the whole family...