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Belle Livingstone, aged scofflaw who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for bootlegging in her swanky three-story saloon in Manhattan's 58th Street (TIME, Feb. 16), opened a new resort outside Reno, Nev. Converted from a dairy barn, the place is decorated with pictures of monkeys; a troupe of dancing Negresses perform monkeyshines. In a nearby outhouse there...
Harness racing is a sport identified with an era when everyone owned horses, when a farmer or two in every township had a fast trotting horse in his barn. Most of the racing, but not all of it, was done in the fall of the year, when farmers had time to go to the races, and had money to bet. Sometimes two lively farmers might make a bet on their horses, race them down the main street while the townsfolk gaped at the speed, the dust, the men leaning forward on the seats of their sulkies, swinging their light whips...
...Smith College, Director William E. Rappard of the Geneva School for Higher International Studies, Governor Stanley Caleb Wilson. Dr. Vincent Ravi-Booth of Bennington turned the sod, first step in the building of four semi-permanent wooden structures to be clustered about the nuclear structure, a large, remodeled barn...
...khaki made up their military force. Major Herskowitz, in a final "fight talk" at their armory, told them: "Now, boys, you're going on a bivouac. Don't forget to keep your rifles clean." At the Oklahoma City field Lieut.-Colonel Murray picked out an old barn as his headquarters and assigned Major Herskowitz one of its stalls as an office. Then he went outside, climbed the crownblock of an oil well, began to rap out orders to the two companies lined up before...
...John M. Fry who directed the party which cornered John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn twelve days after he had shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, died last week in Seward, 111. Detective Ireland of the U. S. Secret Service seized Leon F. Czolgosz by the left arm immediately after he had shot President McKinley, Sept...