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From all this much-traveled Mayor Walker might have gathered that his errand of mercy was looked upon with favor in California. Such, however, was far from the case. "Impropriety . . ." grumbled the Fresno Bee. "Easier than attempting to clean up the Augean stench of Gotham!" sneered the Stockton Record. "PUBLICITY SPECTACLE . . . PROPAGANDA HIPPODROME . . . BALLYHOO!" screamed the San Francisco Chronicle...
...Teams captained by Author Ellis Parker Butler and Sociologist Henry Pratt Fairchild fought to a tie in a spelling bee held in Manhattan's Town Hall Club. Lawyer Henry Waters Taft (brother) was referee. Both captains were eliminated early in the game, Author Butler by "idiosyncrasy," Professor Fairchild by "millennium...
...Bee de doo de dow, Oh, Minnie...
Three days later, another flyer made a record in the No. 1 event of National Air Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...
...world is Old Blue who inhabits the Missouri River and is so big he once got stuck trying to go through a canal lock. But Old Blue exists only in the imaginations of Missouri River boatmen. Last week a real catfish was caught by one Manuel Trigleth in Bee Lake, near Lexington, Miss., which made Manuel Trigleth shout for his father and brother to help pull in the line. Weight...