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...milling town on Commencement Bay was named Tacoma. In 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway located its western terminus on Puget Sound and called the place New Tacoma. In 1883, the Northern Pacific Railway announced that on its maps and guide books "the Indian name" Tacoma would supplant Mount Rainier. A powerful director of the railroad, who was President of the Tacoma Land Company, booming the new town, saw to the changing of the name...
...Athletic Association this year, it was said yesterday, since they were not sufficiently popular last year to warrant a continuance of the plan. Mr. C. F. Getchell declared, however, that in a short time he would announce a new plan that he has under consideration which will supplant the season ticket system...
...human voice across the Atlantic Ocean is a matter of but a few years." His prediction came true ahead of time. Last week, lecturing before distinguished Romans, the inventor of wireless telegraphy prophesied again. Said he: "High-power stations will soon be abolished. Stations of very low power will supplant them. I have been making discoveries concerning short wavelengths. My engineer and I have patented directional waves like beams of light...
...teaching arithmetic, criteria of social utility should supplant old formal doctrine. "Useless processes": derivation of cube roots; common divisors and least common multiple beyond the power of inspection, metric system, troy and apothecary weights, complex and compound fractions, annual and compound interests...
...price of Sarazen who has been the Winter-book favorite for the Kentucky Derby. The result of the race was a blow to all. Sarazen started 1-3 on, while the odds at post-time against Bracedale were 7-1. It was considered possible that St. James will now supplant Sarazen as the Kentucky Derby choice...