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...publishing of his newspaper, the Dayton News.* But he has expressed himself publicly at frequent intervals. In May, 1921, he declined to criticise Harding. By January of the next year, he assailed the Administration's Limitation of Armaments Conference as a "resort to the noisy methods of a circus" and added that the Administration had "profaned Republican history ... by forsaking the soul of Abraham Lincoln for the spleen of Henry Cabot Lodge." Two months later he attacked the Administration for refusing to participate in the Genoa Economic Conference. In succeeding speeches he advocated the League of Nations, which, amon...
...Horley, England, five circus elephants "farmed out for heavy work to keep their weight down", were poisoned with arsenic "by some miscreant." Three died...
...Rome Harvard Club gave a farewell dinner to Richard Washburn Child, retiring U. S. Ambassador to Italy. The dinner was given in a restaurant containing the remains of the ancient Circus of Flaminius, built in 175 B. C. Ambassador Child proposed the healths of the King of Italy and the President, of the U. S. Two days later the Ambassador was received by Premier Mussolini in a farewell audience...
Hans Sarasani, circus owner, who was about to leave Germany for a South American tour, advertised for 300 employees of various kinds. Sixty thousand people applied...
Died Captain Fred Walters," Blue Man " of Barnum's and Ringling Brothers' Circus, 68, in Manhattan, of heart disease. An autopsy showed that his heart, brain, muscles were as blue as his skin. This is attributed to silver poisoning contracted in an Australian mine...