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Harry Greb, world's middleweight champion, is known as "The Pittsburgh Windmill." Against him in the Detroit Arena tilted a young Quixote, one Sage. Bravely the youth attacked. Idly, effortlessly, swung the arms of Greb, click-clack, like flails that spin in the wind. Sage, well-schooled in the naked tourney of this latterday, postured, lunged, but when he set himself to avoid one swinging flail, another descended unseen, caught him unchivalrous buffets. For twelve rounds, though out-pointed in every one, he kept returning to the hopeless encounter...
Died. Julianna Frances Hubbard, 95, mother of the late Elbert Hubbard, so-called "sage of East Aurora"; in Buffalo...
...industrial news is beginning to confirm the speculative assumptions made so vigorously this fall by the stockmarket. Colonel Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland, sage of pig iron, is cheerful over the iron and steel outlook. Increased steel buying and increased prices are reported; the industry is now operating on a 70% basis. Wheat futures continue to rise under shortage, while staple agricultural prices are high and firm. Many industries are patently turning the corner. Imports and exports of gold are both increasing, but despite large recent foreign loans floated here, domestic money remains abundant and cheap...
...which indicates that Wanamaker is not only the name of a big store in Philadelphia and another in Manhattan, but that of a sage, kindly, Christian gentleman...
...sage shakes his head and is not to be hustled along by their piping chorus. He sees that their pink cherub forms...