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Noticing the comment on Bonfils' "great" exploit in the fishing stream in TIME (Sept. 7), I call your attention to the comment carried by the Longmont, Col., Times-Call, and which has been reprinted by numerous Colorado papers.
I have read with much interest your article in the Aug. 31 issue of TIME regarding my alleged fishing exploits. Like the report of Mark Twain's death it was somewhat exaggerated. Obviously you have confused me with the other Holmes whose name, like my nickname, is Jay and...
Governor Sterling thought most of his legislators were opposed to cotton relief legislation. He declared he would be a "boob" to call them into session. When he discovered that a majority did favor legislative action, he issued the call and remarked: "It will be a farmers' session and they'll...
A fishing boat entering Oyster Bay after midnight came upon a cabin cruiser adrift without lights. The fishermen thought they heard someone thrashing in the water a few hundred yards away. They called, got no answer. They thought they could see the head and arms of a swimmer heading for...
In 1874, a lively girl named Mary Ewing Outerbridge paid a visit to Bermuda. There British Army officers taught her a game which was becoming a polite fad in England. When she returned to the U. S., Mary Outerbridge brought with her a net suitable for minnow-fishing, several strange...