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There are only 36 game-fish nurseries in the country; and Mr. Hoover's plea, as sportsman and public servant, was that more nurseries be established by clubs, by individuals, by the Izaak Walton League and by the states, to rear to maturity the millions of tiny fry which the Department of Commerce furnishes free...
...death Harvard has lost a devoted and efficient servant, and intercollegiate Athletic a faithful and valued friend. The Brown University Athletic Council therefore wishes formally to record its sorrow at his death and to express to his widow and his associates its sincerest sympathy...
...servant therefore walk in the steps of his Master; and care nought for the opinion...
...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...