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...women is a criminal class.- (x) By reason of the occupation.- (y) Through influence of surroundings and associates.- (3) As a criminal class, few would dare to register.- (x) Name and occupation at least must be given.- (y) Such information would bring the woman more easily within the grasp of the law.- (z) It is shown by the fact that of the great immoral population of Denver, only 150 registered and but 12 of these voted: Hon. J. S. Clarkson, W. S. Leaflet, Vol. No. 6, p. 4.- (4) Brothel keepers would not allow their inmates to register.- (x) Registration...
Dobyns is a persuasive speaker, combining force with an intelligent grasp of his subject matter...
McClure's Magazine for February takes its first grasp of the reader's attention with eight portraits of Lincoln (several of them very rare), some twenty other Lincoln pictures, and an account, abounding in vivid personal details, of Lincoln's misfortunes as a country merchant; of his entrance into the legislature, and the beginning of his acquaintance with Douglas; of his work as a village postmaster and a deputy county surveyor; of his study of Shakespeare and Burnes and a copy of Blackstone found by chance in a barrel of refuse; and of his romantic courtship of Ann Rutledge...
...Cambridge high jumpers are T. M. Jennings and A. B. Johnston. Johnston will also attempt to throw the sixteenpound hammer. He approaches his take off at a slant, has no great amount of spring, and clears the bar all doubled up, his body bent, as if he would grasp his feet and lift himself over. He gives the impression of attempting to sit on the bar. Jennings jumps in better form, taking off usually straight ahead, although he sometimes affects the slanting run. It is probable that the high jump will go to Cambridge, as neither Thompson nor Sheldon...
...privilege," said Mr. Potts, "to sit beside him for a little space during the waning summer days, to grasp for the last time the gentle hand, to bear his final greeting to his friends. But as the door closed between us, though it closed forever upon the visible presence, it left impressed upon the heart an ideal image, destined to grow forever more majestic and alike more tender as it approached more closely to the real...