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...Tulsa, Okla., last week, then all played together a concert under Bandmaster John Philip Sousa. This grand and noisy occasion was the climax of the Sixth National High School Band Contest. Joliet, Ill. played best of the big schools, Hobart, Ind. of the middle-sized schools, West De Pere, Wis. of the small schools. Fortnight ago in Cleveland the best orchestras came from Cleveland's Glenville High School, East Chicago's Roosevelt High School, Decatur, Mich. High School...
...Beau Pere, King George of England's brown 3-year old by Son-in-Law out of Cinna: the Swaffham Plate at Newmarket, with Synot a nose behind...
...Boston's august Atlantic Monthly. With Princeton's equally down right Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Agnes Repplier shares first place among present-day U. S. women essayists. Unmarried, 73, she lives in Philadelphia. Some of her books: Essays in Idleness, Counter Currents, Points of Friction, Life of Pere Marquette...
...doubles tennis score of two Davises, pere et fils, in defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial...
Chesapeake & Ohio (13,000 mi.) would add to its Nickel Plate, Erie and Pere Marquette, control of Lehigh Valley (to be purchased for $35,000,000 from Pennsylvania which would retain trackage rights). This system's other lines would include Bessemer & Lake Erie (from U. S. Steel Corp.), Wheeling & Lake Erie, Chicago & Eastern Illinois...