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...Troy had a Palladium. Diomedes and Ulysses stole it. We know what happened to Troy. Boston had a Palladium, the Sacred Cod. It is or was a pine codfish, four feet eleven and a half inches long, ten inches thick at its thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag...
...President Roosevelt last week nominated John W. Troy, Juneau publisher of the Alaska Empire, to be Governor of Alaska. Other nominations: Mississippi's James William Collier, onetime chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, to be a Tariff Commissioner; Nebraska's James H. Hanley, to be a Radio Commissioner. Nellie Tayloe Ross, onetime Governor of Wyoming, was in line for appointment as Treasurer of the U. S., a job which would put her name on all paper money...
...presented Wednesday and Friday of this week by the Harvard Classical Club, was a work of the poet's extreme old age, for it was produced when he was eighty-seven. The legend of the wounded hero abandoned by the Greeks on Lemnos on their way to Troy, and later eagerly sought by them when he and his famous bow were needed for the capture of the city, had been treated by both Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles made changes in the myth which lift the plot from the level of a common intrigue to a study of the highest psychological...
...troubled conscience of the young man. When Philoctetes in a fit of agony intrusts to him the coveted bow and arrows Neoptolemus refuses to be false to his friend or to himself, and tells him the truth. There follows a long struggle between Philoctetes' determination never to go to Troy and Neoptolemus' attempts to persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus to return the bow to its owner and even to promise to take him home to Greece. His kindness almost breaks down the resolve of Philoctetes, but the latter remains firm until his apotheosized friend...
From Butte to Albuquerque and from Kansas City to Salt Lake-the territory claimed for the Post's 150,000 circulation-the Bonfils career is epic. Everyone knows that he boasted Corsican descent (his father, a Troy, Mo. judge, changed the name from Buonfiglio) and kinship to Napoleon. Handsome, swarthy, he quit West Point in 1881 and tried his hand at land-trading in the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas booms. His rough-&-tumble methods brought him, if not friends, a neat pot of money with which he started a lottery in Kansas. Bonfils had taken...