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...black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain. No notable acting enlivened these proceedings, though the general average was steadily good enough...
Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, are shareholders and prominent backers of the Stout Metal Airplane Corporation, constructing not "flivvers" but large, all-metal passenger planes of the most modern and refined design. Powered with a Liberty motor, the Stout plane can carry eight passengers within its roomy cabin and fly over 100 miles an hour for long stretches. According to a Dearborn announcement, five or six of these planes will be ready this year, and the great Ford organization expects to sell them, without difficulty, on behalf of the Stout Co. The Liberty motor is now getting...
...treasure which the Widener Library has unwittingly possessed for many years was brought to light yesterday through the acumen of M. L. Stout...
...Stout is taking a course in research work under Mr. G. P. Winship '93, Librarian of the Widener Collection, and in perusing an original edition of Elizabethan plays recently, he noticed that the binding was cardboard on the inside and vellum on the outside. Examining the vellum, he saw that it was an old musical score with French-Latin words written in. He took it to Mr. Winshop, who allowed him to remove the binding after paying for another...
...Davison '06 for appraisal. Dr. Davison identified it as part of an antyshon in the Easter mass of the Catholic church, dating from 1550 at the latest. No definite value has been set upon the manuscript, but Dr. Davison admitted that its worth was considerable. Stout plans to return the manuscript to the library at once. It is not yet known what disposition will be made...