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Filling the afternoon air with a droning roar, racing speedboats plowed foamy furrows up and down the Niagara River at Buffalo. Chief plowhand was Commodore Gar Wood of Detroit. Guiding Baby Gar IV, he won three straight 50-mile heats and a leg on the $5,000 Fisher-Allison Gold Cup. Baby Gar IVs average speed for the 150 miles was 42.06 m.p.h. Rainbow, owned by S. B. Eagan of Buffalo, plowed home second; Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded...
...order that he might have visions of the wealth which her face represented, a miser once married a woman whose profile duplicated one he had seen on a coin. The tale is told by O. Henry. Since the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, more than 770,000,000 silver dollars*; have been minted. They have been admired for the beautiful head they bore. According to the designer, George Morgan, it was a portrait of the most perfect head he had ever seen. Whose? That of a Philadelphia schoolmistress, who never married-Miss Anna W. Williams. She resigned last week after...
...Bland-Allison dollar was replaced in 1922 by a dollar of new design...
...appointment of Mr. R. C. Read as coach of the second hockey team was approved. Mr. Read graduated from Mt. Allison college in New Brunswick in 1919, where he had considerable hockey experience. As he plans to be a graduate student at the University for the next six years, the Athletic Committee hopes that he will be able to establish a permanent coaching system for the second hockey team such as Coach Winsor has developed with the University teams...
...coach of the second hockey team for the coming season will be Mr. R. C. Read, a Canadian player, according to an announcement made yesterday by the University hockey management. Mr. Read graduated from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, in 1919. He played hockey during the next three seasons, and last year returned to match the Mount Allison team...