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...average of 340.08 m. p. h. last September, the Schneider Trophy became Great Britain's permanent possession and the biennial Schneider Races were officially ended unless Britain should choose to put the trophy up again.* Already international apathy had all but finished the competition. The U. S. withdrew in 1926. France dropped out for lack of funds last year. Italy's team was so depleted by crashes that it canceled its entry. Even England would have had no entry last year had not Lady Houston put up the money after the Government refused it. Last week...
Thirty miles further in the wilderness the posse tracked him down. Mad Albert had built a fort of ice and snow. There was another battle. In it, Constable E. Millen died. Police ammunition ran out and the posse withdrew for supplies, leaving three men to watch the fort. In the middle of the night Mad Albert Johnson slipped away again in a blizzard that covered his snowshoe tracks...
...oldest and best known Italian vermouth houses is the firm of Martini & Rossi. It was established in 1835 in Turin as Martini, Sola & Co. The enterprising Rossis entered the firm in the '60s; the last of the original Martinis withdrew from the company nearly 40 years ago. President of the company is white-haired Count Ernesto Rossi. His nephew, a director of the company, is sleek young Count Teofilo Rossi who was sliding down hills at Lake Placid last week as captain of the Italian Olympic bobsled team...
...jail, she cried, rather than be vaccinated. Pay the $5 State fine and keep your blood uncontaminated. Rev. Max A. Kapp of the Universalist Church invited her to use his platform for rostrum. Mayor Carriere and Dr. Burns talked to the proper members of the congregation, and Mr. Kapp withdrew his invitation. Dr. Marion H. Wilder, osteopath, could not be influenced. Mrs. Henderson spoke at his house, remembered that the day was Daniel Webster's 150th birth anniversary, quoted his "The fact of compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberties of the people...
...their heads in shame and handed in their resignations. The same thing happened nine years ago when Hirohito, then Prince Regent, was shot at as he went to open Parliament. As in 1923 he refused to accept the resignations, but unlike the 1923 Cabinet, Premier Inukai and his Ministers withdrew their resignations...