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Twenty-nine years ago a swarthy little Armenian urchin named Mike Devlet sold foreign language newspapers in the cheap restaurants of Manhattan's East Side. He discovered that although he did not know how to pronounce their names customers would pay 10? to hear him try. Then, after a brief career delivering eggs, he went to high school. His teachers were not impressed with his Latin. So Michael Jeremiah Devlet went to work as an errand boy in a bond house. At 16 he was earning $14 a week; at 17, only $5. But he had become a runner...
...Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera follows, watching urchin Tom Garner high diving into a rocky bottom, president Tom Garner buying up rusty railroads, husband Tom Garner sweating out, for his wife, the tale of his new love...
...came into the stretch last week at Rockingham Park Race Track (near Salem, N. H.) the urchin who was riding Quick Step scarcely heard the crowd at the rail yelling, "Come on, Westrope." Jockey Westrope paid more attention to the pounding of hoofs coming up closer and closer behind him, made by Bun D, with Jockey Porter up. He drew his whip, leaned forward in his stirrup, almost lifted Quick Step across the finish line-still ahead by barely a nose. It was the second race that Jockey Westrope had won that afternoon. It brought his record for the year...
...corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform of widespread fraud. Before Dana had finished, every street urchin knew the phrase, and Kemble was behind bars. Even President Cleveland feared the power of Dana's pen, tried to buy up the Sun to muzzle his attacks. In the 30 years of Dana's reign, the Sun trebled its circulation, added an evening edition...
...Wings reimbursed his parent. The Wings' camera shows Ahmang and Sai-Yu dog-paddling about the bottom of the ocean wearing handkerchiefs around their middles and picking oysters. They encounter surprisingly mild adventures when stranded on a cannibal island. The Wings also discovered a chipper little urchin called Ko-Hai. Ko-Hai was foolish enough (in Lori Bara's little story) to be bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically...