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Later it was discovered that a khaki shirt, a pair of blue trousers, and a pair of high sneakers were missing from Clapp's room. Investigation disclosed the fact that Officer Breene a motorcycle patrolman of the Metropolitan Police Force, had seen a person answering the missing man's description and dressed in khaki shirt, blue trousers, and tennis shoes, on the corner of Western Avenue and Flag Street at 1.45 o'clock yesterday morning. Apparently he was returning from a fire on the Magazine Beach across the river...
...Divinity courts yesterday afternoon. Duane, who unexpectedly played at number two, quite outclassed his opponent Bennett by winning 6-0, 6-1, but Polley and Bennett of Brown gave W. I. Ingraham and Duane a long argument in the second set of their match before the latter pair...
Backbone. There is much of the wide open places; the males are thoroughly masculine; the hard-riding heroine resembles successive window displays at Abercrombie and Fitch's and Bedell's. The plot is concerned with the cruel villainies of a pair of French Canadians attempting to mulct the poor girl of her rightful inheritance in timber lands. The hero arrives in time to prevent the mulcting. There is a fight which spatters blood all over a perfectly good chateau and a good job in bridge dynamiting. The rest of the action is adequately exciting...
...these cyclists strode groups of "pedestrians", not sauntering in dress clothes but flailing the air with their elbows and equipped according to the sport catalogue. At times there would go racing by a "gentleman's driving outfit", consisting usually of a buggy stripped for speed, fragile wheels and a pair of well clipped, mettlesome horses that could do a mile in not too many seconds over two minutes. Plenty of exercise was afforded in keeping the horses going in one direction and the driver in his seat...
...Famous Mrs. Pair. Adapted from the play by James Forbes, and, on the whole, well-adapted, except near the finish. There the customary race between the midnight express and the speeding automobile just had to come in, to be followed by the customary fisticuffs in the hotel-room between the well-manicured villyun and the simple but hearty brother of the ingenue...