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With green bag drooping wearily over one shoulder, the Vagabond picked his way along that slushy stretch of sidewalk which borders the Fogg Museum. It was five o'clock, foggy, and the end of a hard and bitter day. The bells in Memorial Hall had just ceased tolling, and those of St. Paul's had brazenly clattered their answer. A short distance ahead the Vagabond caught sight of an old woman. She was dressed in rags, she tottered onwards unmindful through the myriad puddles, and now and then she addressed a plaintive supplication to passers by. For this the Vagabond...
...Louis Rudginsky, a Winthrop, Mass., tire dealer, packed up to go home. With him was Kid Boots Ace, better known as Timmie, his 13-lb. Boston terrier, who had just won first prize in the Western Boston Terrier Club show. Mr. Rudginsky put his thoroughbred into a black fibre bag bearing his initials in red letters. In the hotel lobby he put the case down, stepped away a few feet to say good-by to some friends. When he stepped back case and dog were gone...
...Heckscher Foundation gave lessons in clay modeling, crayon and charcoal drawing, woodworking, metalworking, painting. Chosen to demonstrate the art of knitting were five Ziegfeld chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...
...Springfield schoolroom officers found the boy. His name was Cecil Kiper and he was ten years old. Sullen with fright, he denied knowing anything about the fire until taken before Governor Horner, who used to be a juvenile court judge. There Cecil Kiper told how he had filled a bag with shavings, weighted it with solder, lighted it, thrown it on the armory stage...
...Winter weather had contracted the balloon's gas to such a point that it fell like a dead weight. 2) Ice weighted it down. 3) Some instrument outside the gondola chafed at the shroud lines until they broke, thus allowing the gondola to fall free from the bag. One discovery was made, to heighten the honor of Aeronauts Fedeseemko, Oususkin &Vasenko as their ashes were laid away in the Kremlin wall. A logbook and barograph, still intact, showed that the balloon had climbed...