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...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained "enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store...
...Promoter. Neither Tex Rickard nor Max Reinhardt is to stage the great spectacle. Lew Raymond, first named Lewis, a gentleman experienced in making matches before the Pioneer Athletic Club of Manhattan, a face as well known on Mulberry Street as J. P. Morgan's is on Wall Street, assumed management of the event for three friends, "each capable of the dizziest finance." So Mr. Raymond, who is credited with a melodious Neapolitan accent, is arranging the details, while 2,000 miles away Shelby, Mont., basks silently in Winter snowfall...
...President appointed Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, a Republican, and Thomas W. Gregory of Austin, Tex., a Democrat, to investigate and prosecute the alleged frauds. Mr. Strawn, although rated as a Republican, was a supporter of Grover Cleveland, and a partial supporter of Woodrow Wilson. He is a member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education...
Early in the week U. S. Governor Hunt of Arizona authorized 2,000 Federal soldiers to pass over U. S. territory from Naco to El Paso, Tex...
...glorious party. There was Judge O'Brien with a certified check for $150,000 in his pocket. There was the Judge's son, young Kenneth O'Brien, potentially famed lawyer and Secretary of the National Democratic Club. There was the Acting Mayor of New York City. There was Tex Rickard, A. C. Pearson, George E. Smith. There too was Joseph P. Day, driving auctioneer who, semi-cyclonic, sells lots out-of-doors in January in his shirt sleeves. There, of course, was Swope, voluble, roaring, dominating the scene. Boss Murphy of Tammany was not present?he had gone on ahead...