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...Post was all out to block an anti-dog ordinance in the city council that would virtually force dog owners to keep their pets on a leash or shut up in yards of homes. On its back page the same day, the Post ran a Hatlo cartoon showing a saber-toothed dog tearing the pants off "Mailman McMucilage." As dogs do every time, the man-eater struck a "cute 1'il WoozyOzzums" pose when the postal inspector arrived to investigate McMucilage's complaint. Nevertheless, the harm was done. Hatlo had sabotaged the paper's campaign...
...Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas prison reform. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led Galveston citizens in keeping order after the 1900 hurricane. Said a longtime friend and Texas judge: "If ever saber rattling passes from the earth, it will be because of the Henry Cohens...
...Columbia University fencers, the N.C.A.A. team title, over 35 colleges; at New Haven, Conn. Individual titleholders: Navy's Frank Zimolzak, saber; N.Y.U.'s Herman Wallner, epee; and C.C.N.Y.'s Harold Goldsmith, foil...
Captain Eric Sollee placed fifth in the foil to lead the team, winning 24 out of 31 bouts. Harry Ziel fractured his thumb in the saber and had to default half of his bouts, while George McNair, epee man, and Sollee carried...
McNair is one of three men going to Yale March 28 and 29 for the National Intercollegiate Fencing Championships. Also competing in New Haven will be Sollee in the foil and Harry Ziel in the saber...