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Within a comparatively few hours the insurrectionists were joined by the Navy and the States of Guerrero, Michoacan, Jalisca, Oxaca, San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas were later reported to have cast in their lot with de la Huerta...
...pedalling 2,519 miles and 8 laps in six days, Percy Lawrence of San Francisco and Ernest Kockler, Chicago milk man, won a Six-Day Bike Race at Madison Square Garden. They were one lap ahead of the field. Reggie McNamara and Pete Van Kempen were second by virtue of 1,174 points gained in daily sprints throughout the week. Maurice Brocco, tiny Franco-Italian rider, twice had victory in his grasp in the closing hour of the struggle only to have his giant partner from Holland, Peter Moeskops, ease up and lose the winning...
...School group a San Francisco Harvard Club scholarship goes to G. H. Elmore of Stanford, Calif., a graduate of Leland Stanford University, a Cincinnati Harvard Club Scholarship to R. A. Huwe of that city and a graduate of St. Xavier College, and to W. C. Baxter, of Baltimore, a graduate of St. John's College, a Harvard Club of Maryland Scholarship...
...Irving Bailey '88, senior member of the staff of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy since 1912, who has been in charge of the station at Arequipa, Peru, for the last two years, has been given the degree of Doctor of Science by the University of San Agustin at Arequipa, Peru, and at the same time was made Honorary Professor of Astronomy at the University...
This gentleman from San Diego has informed a prominent Eastern newspaper that he holds in the hollow of his hand the realization of the superman of Shaw and Wells. In fact he has been holding it there for fifteen years, but no enterprising magnate has had the energy to remove it and put it to work". The recipe is simplicity itself. Take one hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry...