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about Hadmiral Togo and

the Banyan and how the Roosians drank so much vodka and kil ed al those poor fisherlads in the North Sea and he wound it up very careful y so as not to break the spring and the needle went rasp rasp Yes I was a bluejacket miself miboy from the time I was a little shayver not much bigger'n you rose to be bosun's mite on the first British hironclad the Warrior and I can dance a ornpipe yet maam and he had a mariner's compass in red and

blue on the back of his hand and his nails looked black

-55-and thick as he fumbled with the needle and the needle went rasp rasp and far away a band played and out of a grindy noise in the little black horn came God Save the King and the little dogs howled

NEWSREEL IV

I met my love in the Alamo

When the moon was on the rise

Her beauty quite bedimmed its light

So radiant were her eyes

during the forenoon union pickets turned back a wagon loaded with 50 campchairs on its way to the fire engine house at Michigan Avenue and Washington street. The chairs it is reported, were ordered for the convenience of policemen de-tailed on strike duty FLEETS MAY MEET IN BATTLE TODAY

WEST OF LUZON

three big wolves were kil ed before the dinner.

A grand parade is proposed here in which President

Roosevelt shal ride so that he can be seen by citizens. At the head wil be a caged bear recently captured after kil ing a dozen dogs and injuring several men. The bear wil be given an hour's start for the hil s then the packs wil be set on the trail and President Roosevelt and the guides wil fol ow in pursuit

three Columbia students start auto trip to Chicago on wager

GENERAL STRIKE NOW THREATENS

It's moonlight fair tonight upon the Wa-abash

-56-OIL KING'S HAPPYEST DAY

one cherub every five minutes market for al classes of real estate continues to be healthy with good demand for fac-tory sites residence and business properties court bil s break labor

BLOODY SUNDAY IN MOSCOW

lady angels are smashed troops guard oilfields America tends to become empire like in the days of the Caesars $5 poem gets rich husband eat less says Edison rich poker player fal s dead when he draws royal flush charges graft in Cicero STRIKE MAY MEAN

REVOLT IN RUSSIA

lake romance of two yachts murder ends labor feud Michi-gan runs al over Albion red flags in St. Petersburg

CZAR YIELDS TO PEOPLE

holds dead baby forty hours families evicted by bursting watermain

CZAR GRANTS CONSTITUTION

From the fields there comes the breath of newmown hay Through the sycamores the candlelight is gleaming THE CAMERA EYE (6)

Go it go it said Mr. Linwood the headmaster when

one was running up the field kicking the round bal footer they cal ed it in Hampstead and afterwards it was time to walk home and one felt good because Mr. Linwood had said Go it

Taylor said There's another American come and he

had teeth like Teddy in the newspapers and a turnedup

-57-nose and a Rough Rider suit and he said Who are you going to vote for? and one said I dunno and he stuck his chest out and said I mean who your folks for Roosevelt or Parker? and one said Judge Parker

the other American's hair was very black and he

stuck his fists up and his nose turned up and he said I'm for Roosevelt wanto fight? al trembly one said I'm for Judge Parker but Taylor said Who's got tuppence for ginger beer? and there wasn't any fight that time

NEWSREEL V

BUGS DRIVE OUT BIOLOGIST

elopers bind and gag; is released by dog

EMPEROR NICHOLAS II FACING

REVOLT OF

EMPIRE GRANTS SUBJECTS LIBERTY

paralysis stops surgeon's knife by the stroke of a pen the last absolute monarchy of Europe passes into history miner of Death Val ey and freak advertiser of Santa Fe Road may die sent to bridewel for stealing plaster angel

On the banks of the Wabash far away.

MAC

Next morning soon after daylight Fainy limped out of a heavy shower into the railroad station at Gaylord. There

-58-was a big swagbel ied stove burning in the station waiting room. The ticket agent's window was closed. There was nobody in sight. Fainy took off first one drenched shoe and then

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