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Mormon wisdom is variously apparent. It was manifestly wise, for instance, to abolish polygamy (1890) after the U. S. Government had begun an antipolygamy campaign, imprisoning hundreds of offenders, disincorporating the Mormon Church, confiscating property, refusing to naturalize Mormons. To the Mormons, however, polygamy was a heaven-ordained adjustment. What...
Hours passed. Capone did not appear. Newsmen grew restive, suspicious. There were grumblings among good citizens who had turned out to see a real "bad man." Darkness came. Finally Warden Herbert Smith announced his trick:
Just what were Inventor Edison's inmost thoughts about that celebration, or about his whole career and the fruits thereof and the uses to which they have been put, the public may not know. But last week Inventor Edison and the public could read in the Nation (pinko-liberal weekly...
The ingenious device for taking these pictures, invented by Mr. Williamson when he was a cartoonist for a Norfolk paper, consists of a long tube with observation windows at one end extending to the bottom of the sea from the hold of a specially built ship. Light to overcome the...
Today however the freedom of the port seems to have been extended to include a freedom of action in transit which involves great inconvenience and annoyance to other travellers. Irritating as it must have been to the sixteenth century tourist to see the Heidelberg boys of the day going through...