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Entries for the intramural track meet were to close last night, but they will be held open today to afford late entrants opportunity to sign...
Cleaning carpets by suction machinery is scarcely 20 years old. Before 1907 the housewife dragged a broom across the carpet nap or, when she could afford it, she bought a carpet sweeper. Bissel was the most popular make of sweeper. It had (and still has) a revolving brush that picked up lint, bread crumbs, hairpins, cigaret butts, needles, roaches, broom, straws, candy, germs. The matted filth made a capital nest for mice. But broom or sweeper cleaned only the surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang...
Springfield lost a close contest with Boston College last Saturday by a 1 to 2 decision and should afford the University nine plenty of opposition in this afternoon's clash...
...number of its readers is an indication of the true sentiment of intelligent people which the newspaper world cannot afford to neglect. It should be pondered by those in the profession, or planning to enter it. The case is one calling for serious study and comment in schools of journalism. No one will claim that the trend is all one way, but no one with his eyes open can deny that in the success of the Times is a proof that those who think it all one way-and that the way of irresponsible journalism dealing only in 'features...
...doubtless no subtle innuendo in this statement by the Times, whose motto is "All the news that's fit to print," although the motto of the Times's rival, the New York Herald Tribune, is "Complete news plus the best features." Generous, imperturbable, the Times can well afford to be. Despite much thunderous prophecy, the Herald Tribune's latest milestone, announced as passed last week, is only 300,000. Though 100,000 people represent only about 1% of the potential newspaper market in Manhattan and vicinity, 100,000 bona fide readers represent a very considerable circulation lead...