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...Monday afternoon William Seymour, who is now playing in "The Goose Hangs High," will recount to the Theatregoers Club stories of the Boston Museum of which from 1879 to 1889 he was stage manager...
Maine, although normally Republican, is usually considered a barometer of the national election in November. This year, however, there was friction in the Republican ranks over the Governorship nomination. Mr. Brewster, supported by the Ku Klux Klan, won the primary after a recount. The Democrats thereupon made the Klan the issue. They called in Senator Underwood as a speaker. The Republicans called in General Dawes, Senators Watson and Willis, Speaker Gillette. They were scared. The Republican press went so far as to say in advance that Maine was no barometer this year because of the Klan issue...
...after John W. Davis' second speech, Charles G. Dawes went to Maine in preparation for the September election there. Until a week or two ago, there was great uncertainty as to which of two candidates was going to be the. Republican nominee for Governor. There was a prolonged recount contest between Ralph O. Brewster, who went into the primaries with Klan support, and his opponent, who was anti-Klan. Finally, only a few days ago, the nomination was given to Brewster...
...comments drew to the spot a large circle of spectators, who chortled with glee when the comedian seriously made through the microphone such remarks as "Hammond knocks a foul into the grandstand.... It hits a man in an empty seat", and "The umpire calls a balk, Williams demands a recount... The umpire wins...
...Watson in his lecture will give a brief history of whaling, telling the reasons for its former prosperity and for its decline. He will also recount the details of an entire whaling voyage; beginning at the wharves where the vessel is put in order and out-fitted, and then going on to such matters as shipping the crew, leaving port, cruising for whales, chasing and capturing a whale, "cutting in" the animal and "drying-out his blubber. Mr. Watson told the CRIMSON reporter of his interest in the old industry. "Although I have never been whaling in my life...