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...McCaffrey moved up to second. The next batter, Hines, reached first, but Gleason was caught between third and home. A double steal enabled McCaffrey to score the Crimson's fifth tally. On the shortstop's error Sargent was safe at first, and Hines scored from second when Neel threw wild to the first baseman. Loughlin, coming to bat for the second time, fanned to end the inning, with the score six to nothing...
...seven white boys) she bummed her way to Chattanooga and back. Mrs. Price says she supports herself & mother on the $13 a month she makes at a Huntsville cotton mill. In court she appeared the last word in cracker chic. She still sticks to her story that the Negroes threw six of her seven white male companions off the train, stripped her, raped her at knife's point...
...Island summers. In winter the Clarks go to Melton Mowbray for the hunting. A friendship between Mr. Clark and the Prince of Wales-who visited them in Westbury in 1924-sprang up there one morning when Mr. Clark saw a cow struggling to get out of a fence. He threw his reins to the man nearest him. dismounted, extricated the cow, discovered that the Prince was holding his horse. If Ambrose Clark was disgruntled at the performance of Chadd's Ford last week, he had himself to thank. He bought Kellsboro Jack in Ireland several years ago, gave...
Chicago and Frank Joseph Corr were as surprised as were New York and John Patrick O'Brien last autumn when Tammany Boss Curry threw O'Brien into the mayoral gap left by Jimmy Walker. Said Acting Mayor Corr: "I didn't even know I was a candidate. . . . I have no feeling of elation." Outside his own ward, where he has been Democratic chairman for 25 years, few Chicagoans ever heard of him. Born in Brooklyn 56 years ago, he was taken to Chicago twelve years later, began practicing law there in 1899. He was Assistant Corporation Counsel...
...recent receivership was that of the famed mortgage bond vendors, S. W. Straus & Co. Inc. Last week two receivers (one of them William A. Calder, former U. S. Senator), appointed to try to do something for the holders of $380,000,000 of securities sold by the firm, threw up their jobs saying that there was nothing they could do for the public. Straus & Co. had not guaranteed the bonds and. the receivers added, ''We find after a preliminary investigation that S. W. Straus & Co. is simply a shell...