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...encouraged by Bismarck to seize Tunis. Three years later the French took advantage of native disturbances to occupy the center of the ancient Carthaginian empire. Italy had long regarded Tunis as her own property, where 50,000 Italians lived and prospered. As Bismarck had planned, this act by France drove Italy into alliance with Austria and Germany...
...party got off the Special, and the President and Mrs. Harding, with the Governors of Washington and Oregon, drove in an old Concord stage coach. Mrs. Harding, who could not see the crowd well enough, mounted to the driver's seat. In a j pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion...
Died. Wolf, 10, son of Lad and Lady, collies made famous by the stories of Albert Payson Terhune, at Pompton Lakes, N. J. Taking his usual evening stroll, Wolf was near the railroad station when a pariah dog got in front of an onrushing express. Wolf drove him from the tracks, but was himself killed...
Next morning the party arrived at Hutchinson, Kans., and drove out six miles to the farm of Chester O'Neal. There, with Senator Arthur Capper (leader of the farm bloc), William Allen White and Governor Davis standing by, the President in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, blue coat and straw hat, shocked sheaves of wheat after the approved methods of Kansas and Ohio...
...University started the scoring in the third inning when Keegan hit strongly for a single and was advanced to second on Young's hit. Clark, however, hit weakly to Pond who threw to third, retiring Keegan. Thayer coming up next drove out a fast liner that brought Young in and advanced Clark to third. Jenkins brought him in on a deep sacrifice...