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It is perhaps a shock to certain industrious vendors, to learn that their wares are illicit; and it will be an equal shock to many of their patrons. The recent court decision would apply equally to the College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE LIGHTNING CALCULATOR" | 4/24/1923 | See Source »

Chance rummagers in the poetry stacks of Widener, in the sections from 1832-1900, will have noticed volume after volume of obscure poets or poetasters. Each is inscribed with the forgotten author's signature, most of them contain inserted notes or pencilled dedications in this manner: "To Professor Longfellow, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIFT-BOOKS | 3/23/1923 | See Source »

Meanwhile Colonel Sam Hunter from the Adjutant General's office in Springfield comes to town. He gets in touch with Hugh Willis, official of the Mine Workers' Local, and tries to arrange an honorable surrender with immunity. Willis replies evasively, but " thinks it can be arranged." The defenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Herrin Horror Retold | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

Secret Service raids on a counterfeiting conspiracy, characterized in the New York afternoon edition as "gigantic," increased the population of the New York jails by 22 and added to the government's collection of criminal curios about $100,000 in bogus bank notes. Although a cryptic secrecy veiled the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Counterfeiters | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

It is a written rule that the wicked flee when no man pursueth, and however limited or absolute that truth may be, it suggests another, to the effect that trusting to human nature when there are no patrolmen does not pay in our stage of civilization. So in regard for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STATE CONSTABULARY | 4/14/1921 | See Source »

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