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advanced study abroad. The fund is

a memorial to his son, John. Simon Guggenheim, who died throw years

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JOHN G. SARGENT.

John Garibaldi Sargent, aixty-five years old, who has practised law for many years, and who is a close personal friend of the Prosi dont hos been nominated by Mr. Ecolidge to be Attorney-General of the United States, following the action of the Senate in refusing to confirm the namination of Charles Beecher Warren. Mr. Bargent, who was Attorney-General of Vermont twenty-five years ago, stands six feet six inches..

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ANCIENT MURDER REVEALED

Human bones, believed by doctors to have been thons of a seven- teen-year-old girl, have been found in a secret puasngeway discovered near the roof of the Red Lion Ian, at Much Hadham, Herts. It in estimated that the ones had remained secreted there for five hundred years. The secret panels lending to the foreniton stalas found above ne dining room fireptaec in the English ancient inn. At the right is shown the exit from the passageway.

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William Joseph Simmons, founder

of the present day Ku Klux Klan,

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who then organized the Knights of

the Flaming Sword, was critically

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of the Flaming Sword, was killed,

United States Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, veteran Republican leader, suffered a wuneral breakdown' on the floor of the Senate and was ordered to bed by his physicians. Pola Negri, acreon actress on her way to Europe to visit her mother and 335 war orphan children, she adopted in Poland, admitted she was seeking a husband to manage her big family." German newspapers report Wiliam A. Harriman,- Bon of the late American railroad king, has secured immensely rich manganese concessions in the Caucasus from the Soviet Government. Arthur Cutton, Chicago's greatest bull plunger, is credited with losing millions in the collapse of May, wheat.

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