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Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
Curls of scented smoke arose last week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...July 8, 1896. Norman de Vaux arrived in San Francisco, vaulted off his Meteor bicycle, proclaimed that he had made a 3,786-mi. trip from Manhattan in 37 days, 14 hr., 15 min. Never since, say loyal friends, has that record been broken...
Last week Norman de Vaux, whose travels have run up almost 150,000 mi. this year, was in Grand Rapids, Mich, completing perhaps his most epochal trip. Lately there have been rumors that he and Motormaker Durant have been getting along none too well. These they both denied last week. Nevertheless, Mr. de Vaux announced that he has bought Durant Motor Co. of California, will refinance it as de Vaux-Hall Motor Corp.. will manufacture a new six-cylinder car, the de Vaux. A big dealer organization in the West will be at his command, and the de Vaux...
...bristle-whiskered old sodbuster." to his wife as "the henna-haired heckler." or "my weazened old Red Head." He relishes a reputation as a benevolent reprobate. His glory is a stag party. Famously hospitable. Publisher Fawcett built a lodge in the wilderness on the shores: of Pelican Lake, 170 mi. west of Duluth, to entertain his friends (among his guests have been Vice President Charles Curtis & son). But they came in such droves that he made it into a resort-Breezy Point-now one of the most elaborate showplaces in Minnesota-A crack marksman (manager of victorious U. S. trap...