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...instead it was securely sealed. This happened to the Cedric and the Carmania. In the port of New York crews of vessels belonging to countries which legally require liquor rations for their seamen, continued to receive their liquor. New York Prohibition Director Canfield announced that he had received a telegram from Commissioner Haynes that the United States Public Health Service would issue medicinal liquor permits to such ships on the assumption that since the liquor was legally required it was medicinal. Contradictory reports were issued in Washington. British steamships, it was announced, will sail westward henceforward with only half their...
...climbed to the roof of a one-story wing of the palace, smashed a skylight, dropped through." Jim Johnson, Mayor of Shelby, Mont.: "The Common Council, in session, voted unanimously to invite the Prince of Wales to the Dempsey-Gibbons fight and the rodeo, July 4. Said the telegram in part: 'These are events of red-blooded sport and the invitation is extended to a red-blooded sportsman.'" Manuel Herrick, former Representative from Oklahoma: " I entered suit in the Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a young woman...
Owing to a new invention, the work of M. Belin, it is now possible to send and have delivered an autograph telegram. The sender of a telegram has only to write his message on a revolving cylinder covered with paper. Special ink is used which makes the words appear in slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph...
Joie Ray will compete in the open handicap meet of the H. A. A. in the Stadium Saturday. The first definite word was received yesterday by the H. A. A. in the form of the telegram, "Is my race on?" As two of the best of the specially invited runners, Brookins, the Iowa hurdler, and Captain Connolly, the Georgetown miler, had sent word earlier in the day that they could not compete, Ray's acceptance of the invitation is especially welcome to the track management. Taylor, the Princeton quarter-miler, who was listed among the definite starters Saturday has also...
Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey: " Jack Dempsey will defend his title any time and any place against either Willard, Firpo or Wills. It is a case of first come, first served." Benito Mussolini, in a telegram to Ermino Spalla, an Italian, when Spalla won the European heavyweight championship from Vandeveer, a Dutchman: " I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...