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Died. Thomas Sawyer, onetime railroader, original of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer according to his sister, Mrs. Flaville Pineo of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; in Tucson, Ariz. No such thing, commented Cyril Clemens, second cousin of Author Twain. He added that "Tom Sawyer" was a composite character...
Harvard Freshmen 4. Harvard Club 1: O. Phipps '21 defeated Vernon Cook '26, Harvard Club, 3-0: C.D. G. Breekinrige '31 defeated W. D. Swan '16, Harvard Club' 3-1: A. C. Ingraham defeated E. J. Sawyer '14, Harvard Club, 3-0; N. F. Glidden '30 defeated J. B. Farnum, Harvard Clufb, 4-1; E. A. Weeks '22, Harvard Club, defeated M. D. Wheelock...
...late Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's personal physician, was turned over a five thousand dollar campaign contribution. Dr, Sawyer bought five thousand dollars worth of whiskey with it, which was stored and served at the Harding residence in Marion, Ohio. This...
...Sawyer . . . whom the President made a Brigadier General, sought to dominate the Bureau? and its employees and to destroy my policies. He carried falsehoods to the President and sought to locate hospitals in a way that would be advantageous to his own interests. A homeopath himself, he sought to have homeopaths replace allopaths. He established a stoolpigeon system within the Bureau and in other departments of the government as well. He was a vain, strutting little creature and fancied that he had a great attraction for women. He held himself out to be the personal representative of the President...
...Later that day I met old Sawyer, who was there every morning to feel the President's pulse and advise a new brand of pills. Sawyer laughed and said: 'God, they had a hell of a row this morning.' He meant the President and his wife...