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...bridegroom's friends, has often cost enough to run the couple into debt for life. Chinese bankers, who have battened on such marriages for centuries, gnawed their lips in rage last week as Mayor Wu hired an elegant brass band which blared the "Wedding March" of "Foreign Devil" Mendelssohn...
...York Times had his obituary in type, in 16 black-bordered columns. It told the familiar story of the poor boy, born in Cincinnati to cultured German parents who took him to Knoxville, Tenn. where, at eleven, he began delivering papers; how he became printer's devil and learned the pressman's trade. It recalled his dogged determination and the editorial shrewdness by which he made the Chattanooga Times a thriving. potent newspaper. Then came the day in 1896 when Adolph Ochs, 38. heard of a chance to acquire the New York Times. To a publisher friend...
...play which the Dramatic Club chose deals with the troubles of a clergyman and his wife who entertain a devil without realizing it. The form taken by the evil spirit and the situations which arise are said to be highly entertaining...
...Suddenly you hear a voice and the devil appears before you. He puts a 50^ piece in a horse track. You take the 50^ and go to the hospital and have them put it in your stomach. Then you're possessed of the devil. He's your father, and your mother. Hell will be a fine place for me." From the adjoining cells came the moaning sound of Negro prisoners chattering their prayers...
Uptown: "Devil Dogs...