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Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 28--The racket by which the families and friends of students in Harvard College and the Graduate Schools are victims of fake hard luck stories and other schemes for obtaining money falsely is by no means limited to residents of New York City and vicinity, according to information gathered here recently. During the past year, especially, residents of middle western cities have been bothered in much the same fashion as those New Yorkers cited in a recent dispatch from Cambridge...
...California and Nevada. To the hotel come numerous ladies to remain for three months in the Nevada wing to secure divorces from their husbands. Louise Dresser is the wife who manages the hotel, while Lightnin' loafs and in his simple way ingratiates himself with the guests. Promoters of a fake stock company appear on the scene and try to buy the hotel in exchange for stock. "Mother" (the wife) is all in favor of the idea, but Lightnin' distrusts the men and refuses to sign the deed. Mother institutes proceedings for divorce, but just in time the false promoters...
...Government seems to get poor results at times the blame should be placed on "foreign plotters.'' A public shooting of all those condemned to death, an execution witnessed by all the occidental correspondents in Moscow would have done much to convince doubters that the trial was no fake...
...then shifts into an unbalanced line, usually one man on one side of the center and five on the other side. On regular formations Booth crouches behind the center and takes the ball from him; on kick formations he is back. The Eli offensive centers around reverse and fake reverse plays, most of which go around the long end of the line, with an occasional reverse play around the short end, usually unsuccessful. Most effective of the plays is the one that sends Booth around the right side on a long end sweep with practically the whole Eli team interfering...
Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...