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...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
Divorced. The Princess Sidi Wirt Spreckels Chakir, onetime Kansas farm-girl, onetime San Francisco cafe entertainer; from Suad Bey Chakir, Turkish potentate, her third husband; at Reno. Grounds: failure to provide. A month ago -he won a $5,000 slander suit from Turkish Princess Chivekar, who mentioned her in a divorce action against Selim...
...most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item, the establishment of a federal committee to assist ex-convicts in social re-adjustment, judging from the recent criminal...
...suit which had kept house unit number two, beyond McKinlock Hall, from rising above its foundations was dropped by the plaintiff yesterday. The case, which was due to come up in court this morning, was an attempt to restrain Harvard University by injunction from raising a building which would obscure a view of the Charies from a house owned by the plaintiff in the vicinity of Memorial Drive...
While the suit was pending construction on the Memorial Drive unit was considerably slowed up, but this week work will be pushed ahead on the walls and superstructure of the building...