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...Cooke of Morrisville, N. Y.: "My good friend, John A. Stewart, has written to me of your long life together, telling me that you have within a few days celebrated the sixty-fifth anniversary of your marriage. This is a most interesting and impressive record, and I cannot refrain from writing to congratulate both of you, and to extend my earnest hope that you may be preserved to celebrate many more anniversaries...
...clock. The University race will be rowed downstream from Red Top to the Railroad Bridge at New London at 4 o'clock, wind and weather permitting; otherwise at 7.30 o'clock upstream. As last year, the fleet of yachts lined along the course will be asked to refrain from blowing their whistles during the race, in order to let the crews hear the coxswain's directions...
...Great as this honor is, however, I would not speak truthfully to you should I refrain from saying that I have never aspired to the Presidency of this country. If there are those who doubt my sincerity in what I am saying, let me lay additional emphasis on my state of mind by declaring that this convention will please me most by allowing the delegates from Indiana to go to, the New York convention uninstructed...
...efface himself when his opponent received the nomination. And when an appeal to his party loyalty was made, to effect his withdrawal, his reply was a master-piece. M. Doumergue observed that he had never advanced his own candidacy, and that he declined to ask his friends to refrain from voting for him. His appreciative friends seized the opportunity to win him a decisive victory...
...undisclosed. The French public, aided by shocked Britons, became horrified and indignant protests sounded on all sides. Nevertheless, undaunted, the Professor turned up during the past week with 20 more canine spectators for another "big bang." There was a telegram for him: President Poincare had courteously asked him to refrain from using dogs in deference to the popular outcry which his experiments were raising. As the Premier is an ardent devotee of cats, it was suggested that Mme. Poincare may have had something to do with the Premier's action, because she has a strong affection for dogs...