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...Runaway. A young woman named Clara Bow has been heavily involved in a dreary southern mountain story with the usual wholesome, fulsome finish. She starts out as a painted lady of Broadway and ends in the uplands of Kentucky happily ginghamed...
None of them at first will have paid much attention to the city of Butte straggling up the mountain sides, where by day mine mouths stare like blackened cataracts on the human eye, and by night lights glare coldly. In Butte there are good homes and business blocks. But for the most part the dwellings, chop houses, onetime honky-tonks, have a temporary air, a helter-skelter appearance derived perhaps from the mining camp tradition...
Springfield has been defeated twice this year, in three starts, their most recent conqueror being Amherst, victim to the Crimson's fine defensive play on Saturday. Vermont and Middlebury have been the Springfielder's other opponents, the Green Mountain boys winning, 4 to 2, while Middlebury, with a weak team, was buried under a 7 to 1 tally...
...principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...Hoopuloans had three days' notice to evacuate. When the convulsions of the mountain sent the slowly creeping river of slag down upon them, they pushed off from shore in their outrigger canoes, abandoning their efforts to placate the goddess Pele* with offerings of burned pig, herbs, liquor and prayers. Passengers on a steamship had a gorgeous sight of a white-hot avalanche plunging into the sea with a roar like a host of locomotives belching blood-colored smoke and towering geysers of steam...