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Long ago one George K. Spoor experimented with a primitive projection machine, started the first film distributing company, became a controlling factor in the old Essanay Co. In 1916 he quit film production but continued experiments to find new tools. Last fortnight, and again last week, Experimenter Spoor announced some new cinema devices which he had developed with the aid of two engineers ?Fred J. Lindbergh (no kin) and P. John Berggren?and which, coming from George K. Spoor, may well prove important...
Where spouting pillars spoor the evening...
Beira, Monday. A lion has again made its appearance on the golf links here. It was heard twice last week. The spoor was also found near the nth hole. It is thought the animal has been outlawed by others and is now looking for food and water. Members of the club are seriously contemplating carrying a rifle in their golf bags...
Eugene Victor Debs came with Socialism. George Spoor and E. H. Ahmet took pictures that moved ("Essanay") of Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin. Eddie Foy tried to stop the fire-panic at the Iroquois Theatre. Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters got an audience denied in the East. Three young businessmen began Rotary...
...spoor marker of the days when nomadic Hebrews, detaching themselves from their fellow Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Desert, settled themselves down to a pastoral, and, later, an agricultural life in Canaan. Pious Jews, bound even though they be by modern commerce, memorialize it for seven days, wherever possible, by living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah...