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...Philadelphians laid out 25? and purchased The Philadelphian. Opening this new monthly, a Philadelphianization of the weekly New Yorker, they discovered a description of the magazine by its editors which gave cause for alarm: "An entertainment . . . just a big, good-natured thurible...
Whatever son of Harvard reads the condemnation of these noisy times by that wit and critic, essayist and Philadelphian, Agnes Repplier, will remember the hammers that are building the new Fogg Museum and which are heard between words of some lecture in Emerson or Sever, and readily agree. "Noise", says Miss Repplier, "is savage. It is time that scientists were concerned with some means of collecting sound, carrying it away somewhere and dumping it. We need, not an invention to reproduce or carry sound, but one to eliminate it." And there is wisdom in her words. The noise of motor...
...place this fall. Just before the close of the National League season two members of the New York Giants were accused of offering a bribe to a member of the Philadelphia nine to "throw" a game which would have automatically given the Giants the pennant of their league. The Philadelphian refused and reported the offered bribe. But the Giants won the pennant nonetheless. Judge Landis expelled the two players after a cursory investigation of the charges against them...
...opening round. Alonso has been known to beat Tilden. Also in Tilden's quarter of the draw were Norman E. Brookes, ancient Australian, Pat O'Hara Wood, and Howard Kinsey, the deadlier of the two Kinsey brothers. Any one of these might conceivably upset the elongated Philadelphian...
Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.?Trying for No. 3, this young Philadelphian for days concealed the fact of a broken rib, but ultimately had to lose a week's practice. Sound, he might beat out Webb and Stevenson or even Pedley...