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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...improvements", he stated, "have been introduced since the prised, "have been introduced since the prison was erected, the chief ones being better cell ventilation with a great deal more light, twice the space of the old dungeons, better hygienic and sanitary conditions and educational and religious opportunities that were unknown to prisoners of former days. At present there are 12,000 volumes in the prison library available to the prisoners, while religious services of all denominations are held each week...
...Bomb.-About 2.30 in the morning some unknown person left a bomb on the doorstep of the American Consulate General in Mexico City. Five minutes later it went off, but, fortunately, killed no one and did little material damage. Evidence points to the fact that it was a Communist bombing outrage directed against Carlos Castillo, a lawyer occupying offices in the Consulate building. After this explosion it became known that a puerile bomb attack was made on the American Embassy building about three weeks ago. It also transpired that the American envoys, now in conference at Mexico. City, shortly after...
...secretary to Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger, so the squire is called, has a barefoot daughter who provides what love entanglements are necessary. But nobody says " begorra...
...well known to the world of ball to require extended biography. Even those who are uncertain of the difference between a single and a signal have read McGraw's name in the headlines. He has figured in one or two street brawls. Has played in " vodvil," is not unknown to horse racing. He was a member of the famous Baltimore Oriole team of 1894 and has been a forceful figure in the game ever since. He has seven...
Henry W. Fowler, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, has brought back from the South Sea Islands more than 10,000 vividly colored specimens of fish, ten of which are of hitherto unknown species...