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...guard the Black Duck, transferred to Providence, was assigned Edward Foley, 64, trusted customs agent. Securing liquor elsewhere, he became staggering drunk on duty, flourished two revolvers at a curious crowd, fell to the ground breaking a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, rushed to a telephone to call "reinforcements" from Boston, ended his rampage in a sodden stupor...
...went to Manhattan with $50 in his pocket, set up a physical culture studio, invented a mechanical exerciser. With his profits he started Physical Culture Magazine. His first marriage turned out badly, but left him with a daughter, Helen. His Manhattan office was raided by the late great Anthony Comstock, but nothing came of it. He founded Physical Culture City at Helmetta, N. J., as a health resort and a base for his publishing campaigns; but before things were properly under way he was arrested, charged with sending lewd & obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats...
...Near Ruston, La. on Christmas Eve. Sheriff A. J. Thigpen and two deputies dug up a gallon jug of whiskey near the house of Farmer Philip Harris. When they entered the house, the farmer made "a suspicious move" toward his coat pocket. The sheriff shot him dead...
...lives in a modest apartment waited the Presidential automobile with its usual accompaniment of escorting automobiles, aides, detectives. Correspondent Aguidino gave a casual glance at a dingy little man in a faded brown suit who lounged nearby. He saw the dingy little man pull a large pistol from his pocket, run into the middle of the street, fire once. President Irigoyen's chauffeur, quick-witted, sent the car zigzagging from curb to curb as the little man fired again and again. Other pistols banged in the bright sunlight. Members of the President's bodyguard were on all sides...
...English ancestors and namesakes invented "Graves' disease." His father was a school inspector, and wrote poetry. When he told his children stories he never began, "Once upon a time,'' but ''And so the old gardener blew his nose on a red pocket handkerchief." At 14 Graves went to Charterhouse, famed English public school. He was clumsy, ignorant, independent; he did not get along well. If he had not discovered an aptitude for boxing, he would probably have had a worse time. Graves has some harsh things to say about the English public schools. "For every...