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Last week Max Baer, second rate California heavyweight, won a bout from Frankie Campbell, San Francisco Italian, by a knockout. In the second round Baer fell in Campbell's corner, half-slipping, half knocked down. Campbell went to a neutral corner and stood with his back to his fallen opponent, looking out over the crowd. The referee ruled that Baer had slipped, motioned him to get up. Baer rushed across the ring and while Campbell stood with his back turned hit him terrific punches. "I feel as though something in my head had cracked," Campbell told his handlers...
General Manuel Maria Ponce, a Leguia friend, was placed in command of the revolutionary Junta (military government). Ex-President Leguia and his son Juan fled to the cruiser Almirante Grau, begged to be taken to a neutral port. Other members of the numerous Leguia family scurried to the safety of Lima's foreign embassies...
...Oxon, will utterly abandon his ideally enlightened self to the diligent pursuance of any task not altogether turpiludicrous. Will not suffer his already-disgusted self to consider programmes redolent of get-rich-in-a-hurry schemes. Romantic ladies kindly neutral. Address...
Basic principle of "free-wheeling": When the car rolls faster than the engine is turning over, the rear wheels are automatically disengaged from the engine. Bicycle makers long ago incorporated this principle in the "coaster" brake. In the automobile it amounts to an automatic shifting to neutral whenever the engine threatens to act as a brake on the car. When the engine is desired as a brake aid, an auxiliary gear is ready for the purpose on the new Studebaker...
...German agents blew up Lehigh Valley R. R.'s Black Tom Terminal (July 29, 1916) and Canadian Car & Foundry Co.'s Kingsland Assemblying Plant (Jan. 11, 1917), that was not their right and Germany must pay $25,000,000 damages, for the U. S. was then neutral. Last fortnight the New York Evening Post obtained access to and published some of the evidence to be filed by the U. S. in a suit U. S. v. Germany before the Mixed Claims Commission. Surprised were many U. S. citizens, largely convinced that most outcry about German "atrocities" was Wartime...