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Exhibits now on display about the University cover a variety of subjects in the Treasure Room of Widener Library may be seen an exhibition comprising the early history of Harvard, and one showing the development of type from manuscript...
...were filling stations of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Colonial Beacon Oil, Standard Oil of Indiana, Standard Oil of Pennsylvania, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of Louisiana, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Nebraska, Utah Oil Refining Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the stations will display Postal signs, attendants will furnish blanks. They will carry the blanks out to motorists sitting in their cars at the pump, if desired, and immediately telephone their messages to the nearest telegraph...
...crowd at a fair in Port Royal, Pa. sat quietly in the dark watching the fireworks display one evening last week. As a big rocket hissed over their heads lighting up the grandstand, a small boy shouted to them to "look at the big dog." Sitting unnoticed in the stand was the fair's lion, escaped from his cage. Children screamed. The lion roared. Several thousand people rushed to the exits. State troopers drew their revolvers, formed a circle about the beast while keepers lassoed...
...prominent U. S. airmen only one publicly questioned the value of the Coste flight. Said Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks: "It was a great display of nerve but a foolish thing to do. . . . Though it was magnificently courageous, flights across the ocean in landships prove nothing except nerve and luck. When one is made in a seaplane, then something will have been accomplished...
...Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room...