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...Colt revolvers, possess summons books and can prosecute offenders in magistrate court. Their duties include the collecting of stray dogs who are then penned together in metal and concrete pens and given a killing dose of carbon dioxide gas if after 48 hours they are unclaimed or deemed unfit to be given away. A. S. P. C. A. agents, aided by state police, last week broke up a cock fight at Goshen, N. Y., arrested 125 men, rescued 49 cocks. Its revenue is derived from members' dues and donations, as well as dog owners' license fees. Yearly expenditures approximate...
Author Paul Alverdes, 33, writes from his own experience. The son of a German army officer, he volunteered at 17, served with the German artillery, early in the War was shot through the throat. After a year and a half in the hospital he was discharged as unfit for further service. He lives in Munich, whose university gave him his doctorate in philosophy; has written a book of verse, several novelettes and short stories, a tragedy based on the Ruhr Occupation. The Whistlers' Room was originally written (1928) as a contribution to a commemorative volume in honor of Poet...
Despite the fact that Judge McCormick had lately sat on the U. S. bench in Manhattan, had there issued many a Dry padlock order against Broadway night clubs, Senator Harris cried: "Just what I feared! . . . An encouragement to violations of the law. . . . A partisan against Prohibition unfit to hold office on the commission. . . . Prohibition forces will be greatly disappointed if the President does not remove this...
...Calamity") Jane Canary Burke, famed Dakota saloonkeeper and roisterer, admirer of Wild Bill Hickok, by whose side she lies, who nursed the miners and, according to Authoress Coolidge, "softened the rigors of pioneer life with the milk of human kindness." At the White House arrived many a beast judged unfit to live therein: from Chihuahua a Mexican bear in a motor van, from Australia a wallaby (small kangaroo), from Africa twin lion cubs named Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau, a duikir (tiny deer), a dozen Pekin ducks just hatched. These animals were sent to the Zoo. Only Tiny...
...Erastus & Irwin Beadle who sold the first five million between 1860-64. Who dared say that lordly persons were above them? There was Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan who emphatically admitted that Beadle's Oonomoo the Huron fascinated him. The man who disliked it, opined the Senator, was unfit to live. In the Civil War the same novels did much to incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare...