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...Tarrytown, N. Y. The day before his 86th birthday, John Davison Rockefeller hastily gulped down a bowl of hot milk toast, went out to the first tee of his little 9-hole course, drove off. When he finished the round, he stated that his score was 48-an assertion smirkingly corroborated by his caddy. "The best 86-year-old golfer in the world," said his friends...
Floods in the southernmost Provinces of Krakow and Lwow drove 300,000 people from their homes. Relief of $2,000,000 was needed. No details...
From the University, the Prince drove through miles of excited, noisy, hot people, all roaring "many happy returns," to a meeting of Moslems and a congregation of Negroes, who were also loudly vociferous...
...City, one Islas Escandon, dentist, piled 400,000 human teeth in his window, advertised in glaring posters the ease with which he extracted molars, eyeteeth. A rabble, styled by approving officials as "a group of students," questioned patients of Islas Escandon, then advanced upon the quarters of this quack, drove him forth, shoveled his 400,000 teeth upon an ash-heap...
Gales that drove the thermometer to 5° below zero...