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...Medical Museum. ¶ Max Sasanoff, until some months ago, was an inmate of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta. Now he is in Washington to paint a portrait of President Coolidge. Sasanoff, a Russo-Italian by birth, early attained some reputation as a concert singer. He came to this country, fell in with counterfeiters, was apprehended, convicted, sentenced to Atlanta for three years. While in Atlanta, he attracted attention by painting in the penitentiary chapel a remarkable picture of Christ ministering to the poor. It was claimed that the counterfeiters had forced him to work for them under threat of death...
Credit and Banking. Republicans in 1920 demanded deflation, and within 18 months after the election, bank loans and discounts fell off five billions and currency in circulation over one and a half billions, resulting in the bankruptcy of farmers, in industrial depression, and in unemployment...
When, in 1920, President Deschanel fell out of a train dressed in his pajamas ? a really sad story ? the Parisiens seized upon the incident with witty avidity. The following day every amusement place in Paris resounded with jokes at the expense of the unfortunate Deschanel...
...minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister's company, he followed the man out of the room. Two shots rang out. A human scream vibrated the air. There was a dull thud as a body fell to the floor. Miss Brennan and Cullen dashed out of the room into the hall to find the assassins on the point of leaving and Brennan lying face down on the floor. Miss Brennan seized one of the murderers by the sleeve, but he shook him self free. Two mOre...
Rudyard Kipling: "I wrote an inscription and epitaph for a monument which the town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is erecting to the 350 men from that place who fell in the War. My contribution concluded: "From little towns in a far land we came...