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Died. Col. Charles Stewart Stobie, 86, oldtime Indian fighter; in Chicago. As "Mountain Charlie" he campaigned with William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and "Wild Bill" Hickok, later was adopted as a White Ute, retired to paint Indians. To his death he wore his hah long, carried a scar across his back, inflicted by Indians as he lay beleaguered in a buffalo wallow...
While an ardent defender of the old American game, I will admit that I still bear a slight scar on my face from finger nails used under water and unseen by the referee, and I also admit to having sinus trouble ten years after the old game fell into disrepute...
...ghost of an old man with a sabre scar across his cheek hovered over Boston's Symphony Hall last week. In his honor Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky had prepared a six-day Bach festival and undertaken to give two complete performances of the great B Minor Mass. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer had come to do some of the soloing in her deep, vibrant voice. Singers from Harvard University and Radcliffe College had worked for weeks polishing the difficult choruses. Conductor Koussevitzky was keyed to a pitch where no amount of effort was too much to spend in the memory of Major Henry...
When Bank Clerk Jim Blake found his boss in conference with a man who had a long red scar on the back of his hand, he had the feeling that something queer was afoot. This goes to show that in a mystery story not even the hero should jump to conclusions. Still, you can hardly blame Jim (who was not overly given to suspicion), for he never laid eyes again on the scarred man till they suddenly met in a dripping cavern, in the dark. Between those two meetings Jim had plenty to think about...
Professor Tsankoff mortally hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader of one branch of the Imro. Converted by his friend. General Protogeroff publicly announced that he had abandoned violence as a policy, would limit himself to peaceful propaganda. Soon General Protogeroff was shot down as a lily-livered weakling. Left in sole command of the Imro was the sinister gunman...