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...Jockeys. Black Gold was ridden by J.D. Mooney, New Orleans boy. Mooney, hitherto little known, rode a perfect race. He got his mount out of a bad "pocket" of horses at the first turn, he took him from sixth place to third on the five furlong* back stretch, and he brought him in a winner in the last quarter of a mile. Sande, who rode Zev to a victory over the English horse Papyrus last October, kept Bracadale at a fast pace all the way around the track. He was always in the lead for the first mile...
...further explanation of his change of view, President Eliot related two sets of observations which he had made of the "local option" method of regulating liquor sales. The first observation was made while he was spending most of his summers on the island of Mount Desert, in Maine. Although the Maine prohibition laws were rigidly enforced there, at the neighboring summer colony of Bar Harbor it was impossible to enforce the laws at all, because of the importation of liquor from neighboring states. Later in Massachusetts, when Cambridge was dry and Boston Wet, Dr. Eliot again observed the failure...
...Senate: ¶ Passed a bill appropriating $1,500,000 to, aid in the eradication of the foot and mouth disease in California (previously passed by the House). ¶ Adopted a joint resolution changing the name of Mount Ranier (Wash.) to Mount Tacoma...
...67th annual meeting of the American Chemical Society convened in Washington under the Presidency of Dr. Leo Hendrik Baekeland, inventor of bakelite. R. S. McBride, President of the Washington section, welcomed the convention, and it was entertained by cinemas, teas, receptions, dances, sight-seeings, excursions to Government laboratories, to Mount Vernon, to Edgewood Arsenal. President Coolidge received the chemists...
...Algiers on a steep mount overhanging the city was placed, centuries ago, an image of Isis done in the blackest of black basalt. Early in the Christian Era, the image was accepted by the African Christians as an image of the Blessed Virgin...