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Death sped unseen across a white-walled courtyard, passed up a marble stair, and seemed to pause, irresolute, last week, in the bedchamber of Rumania's greatest man. The room, warmed by a great tile stove, was cozy; and Prime Minister Jon Bratiano, 63, clung hard to warmth and life. He could not speak, for inflammation brought on by blood infection, had gagged his throat; but with a steady hand he wrote to the physicians who bent over him: "Do not be impatient. I shall make a good fight...
Died. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, 51, wife of the Anti-Saloon League counsel, from burns when an oil stove exploded in their summer cottage at Shelby, Mich. Mr. Candy, 81, her father, with her at the time, died from shock when he saw the flames envelop Mrs. Wheeler...
...Paris, police agents found two old women living in great iron steam-boilers discarded by a factory. Each had a boiler-room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...
...Stove pipe committee"?conductors in conversation (cf. Tweedledee & Tweedledum above). In the eyes of some porters, some conductors are "pretty high-hat," toplofty, consciously superior...
Pictures of girls in broad brimmed hats and students sauntering through the Yard arrayed in cut-always and stove pipe hats have finally furnished a clue to the age of the china plate fragments discovered Friday afternoon in the steard pipe ditch being constructed near University Hall. More than a bushed of broken 'ups, plates, and bowls were taken out of this mine of ancient University plate accidentaly unearthed by the operations of a steam shoved. The plate having been rescued from eternal oblivion by the enthusiastic and opportune intervention of President Lowell has been carefully scrutinized by Assistant Professor...