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...discharge them more effectively. Almost as effective as the animals is Tarzan Weissmuller. His ability as a swimmer has never led him into jungles. The wildest animal he ever knew hitherto was the comparatively tame and toothless alligator which used sometimes to be allowed to splash comically in the Roney-Plaza Hotel's luxurious swimming pool in Miami, where Weissmuller was swimming instructor. Nevertheless he acquits himself creditably. His spare frame is not too skinny for the role; he swims faster than Miss O'Sullivan can run and his thick-featured face is what one would expect in a foster...
...Hartford, Ala.. Police Chief J. C. Roney and ex-Mayor J. H. Radford had disliked each other for years. One morning a road-scraping machine went into operation directly in front of the ex-mayor's house, put the ex-mayor into a frightful humor, sent him hurrying to the police chief to demand that the nuisance cease. The police chief put his left hand on the ex-mayor's shoulder, the ex-mayor put his left hand on the police chief's shoulder; with their right hands they drew pistols, shot each other to death...
KINDERHOOK, N. Y., July 10.-Sought by state troops, Boy Scouts and posses of citizens since his disappearance Wednesday, James Wynkop Roney, nine-year-old son of Garner P. Roney, an assistant city editor of The Herald Tribune, was found drowned in Kinderhook Creek here today...
Garner P. Roney is a newspaperman by instinct and by virtue of long training in the practices and traditions of his profession. He recovered the body of his only son from a creek near Kinderhook yesterday; but even while he was broken by the greatest sorrow of his life, he realized that the finding of the boy's body was news and that his paper should have it. So he went to the telegraph office and wrote the story for what it was worth as news, wrote it as calmly and as dispassionately as if the boy had been...
...Jones will be represented by models, sketches, photographs, and designs of stage settings and costumes. One of the most interesting departments of the exhibition will be the models made to scale, and especially one large working model of the newer type of German stage, with which Mr. W. W. Roney will exhibit the concrete sky dome, sliding stages, and diffused lighting...