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...four reels go by and the audience is about ready to put on its bonnet and rubbers to go home when the hero is falsely accused of murder. Four more reels are necessary sary to drag him to prison and offer him opportunity for heaving, tearing and gnashing the chest, the hair and the teeth, respectively. When about half the play is junked, the remainder may prove interesting...
...product, advertised the parachute. The flaming tights did the rest; for they drew such a crowd that shop windows and iron railings along the street were broken. To this throng the aviator advertised by word of mouth a department store, an eye doctor, whose card he wore on his chest, and himself, whose card he passed around, as Lieut. Hubert Julian, M.D., the M.D. being translated by the lieutenant to mean mechanical draftsman. How much more effectual it would be to drop men into the Stadium between halves than to fly kites over it. Certainly the unsightly bill-board would...
...rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board, a setting-up of shaking down which demanded a high ceiling...
...means the life of other families. And one family at a time is enough. The Superintendent of Schools at Newark, N. J., banned the Red Cross text-book on hygiene and home care of the sick because it advises that alcohol and whiskey be kept in the home medicine chest for emergency purposes. A movement is understood to be on foot to inform the Superintendent that other similar publications mention narcotics by name and prescribe doses...
...brief also described the United Mine Workers as a "super-government " which collects an annual war chest of $15,000,000 in dues...