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...Fokine telegraphed the Police in Cleveland and Niagara Falls: "FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...
...William H. Long of Somerville, N. J. sat in their home, contem plating the rock garden which had won a silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree...
Other provers of the fabulous: Rev Mark L. Voyles of Little Rock, Ark. who can give the chapter and verse number of any scriptural quotation read to him and recite the preceding and succeeding verses; W. W. Pitman of Wharton, Tex. who disarmed a man by shooting a bullet into one of the chambers of his gun; Edward W. Pulick of College Point, N. Y. who was struck by lightning, left uninjured save for singed hair, a burnt straw hat; Robert F. Lancaster of South Whitley, Ind. whose family of 58 has not had a death in 83 years...
Shattuck Scholarships: Peter Fishman, Dorchester, Mass.; Walter Leighton, Jr., Evanston, Ill.; G. C. LeRoy, Auburndale, Mass.; C. A. Niemeyer, Independence, Kan.; R. E. K. Rourke, Brockville, Ont.; F. E. Ulrich, Schenectady, N. Y.; J. E. Whitesell, Eagle Rock, Virginia; Thayer Scholarships: A. I. Abell, Eldorado, Ill.; J. A. Jenkins, Oak Park, Ill.; A. G. Marshak, Woodhaven, L. I., N. Y.; J. C. Miller, Taooma, Wash.; L. A. Wilford, Cambridge, Mass.; Gorham Thomas Scholarship: C. B. Moke, Youngstown, Ohio; Townsend Scholarships: J. M. Pratt, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. F. A. Rick, Jamestown, N. Y.; W. S. Weedon, University, Va.; Nathan Weiner, Roxbury...
...Rock Island box cars were good enough for 500 recruits from the Oklahoma oil fields...