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were wondering how narrow a hobble skirt could be without becoming too ultra, and newspapers told how the Pope had refused to grant audience to Theodore Roosevelt.
In headlong haste many people moved from Kiev where Russians were putting anti-Jewish feelings into concrete expression, and people asked each other if it wasn’t horrible to think of the two hundred thousand people who had died in the earthquake at Messina, Italy.
A man named Walter Wellman, with notable courage, went up in the air in a dirigible and started out in a vain attempt to cross the Atlantic; Premier Bourtos Pasha of Egypt was assassinated by a man styled in the press as a “nationalist student”; a “crazed man” tried to assassinate Mayor Gaynor of New York; in the interests of civilization soldiers armed w
