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Housewreckers dissecting a brick wall in San Francisco lately found riveted to it a large memorial plaque of marble. Carved thereon were three marble dogs, two crouched beside, one perched on top of an old time safe. Below them was graven this testimonial: ". . . To the memory of three Dogs, JACK, FIDO, & TIP. In life they were intelligent, noble, and affectionate, and were cruelly poisoned by Burglars, and nobly perished at the post of duty...
There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
...shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The big film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives depend on running the trains properly. It is a love-triangle, with Louis Wolheim as the heroic but unfortunate suitor, Robert Armstrong...
...Philadelphia, the will of Wilson E. Stroudt bequeathed to his sister-in-law Mrs. Charles L. Stroudt "all that parcel of land from the Atlantic to the Pacific and all the trees and everything thereon"; to her son "the four winds of the earth, that he may enjoy them the same as I have"; to the person who buried him all that remained of his estate after funeral expenses were paid. Mrs. Stroudt buried him, received...
...resulting hole another statue of General Lee and Horse Traveller before funds ran out. Then Lukeman, too, washed his hands of Stone Mountain, went north. Three months ago one Will Tuggle, Atlanta Justice of the Peace, attracted attention to Stone Mountain by scaling the back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which might in time become a rift and finally a mountainside to carry the whole memorial down to the dust heap below...