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Incensed by Baron Von Tippelskirsch's placing of a wreath beneath the tablet of the four German students of Harvard who were killed in the service of their country, the N.S.L. last night issued the following mandatory protest...
...thereby being able to pay their debts, and at the same time to build, equip and endow hospitals for all communities, thereby benefiting humanity instead of satisfying our own sentimental vanity, I propose that a tax of 100% be placed on the cost of burial, starting with the wreath or what have you after death, through to the finished and marked grave...
...visited Santa Anita to have herself photographed with Head Play. Annoyed by her posturings, Head Play bit her on the shoulder. Last week, apparently less dismayed by Miss Marsh's experience than encouraged by the commotion it caused, Cinemactress Inez Courtney visited the track to hang an enormous wreath on Twenty Grand. Twenty Grand failed to oblige the photographers and pressagents by taking so much as a nip at Miss Courtney...
...defeated not so much by attrition and force of numbers as by Grant's superior tactics and determination. He brushes aside Grant's heavy losses: "Criticism of Grant for incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring Grant the superior of Napoleon himself...
Next morning the Presidential party awakened in its Pullmans on the western side of Tennessee at Nashville. There was a short stop at the State Capitol grounds while Mrs. Roosevelt went up to lay a wreath on the tomb of one of her husband's predecessors, 11th President James Knox Polk. Thousands lined streets and roads as the party continued into the country to breakfast at the old home of 7th President Andrew Jackson...