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...Texas is full of interesting activities and almost every week brings some unusually important visitor. During the past 12 months three Presidents, a large number of cabinet members and foreign diplomats have visited the Texas. Just about sunset last Wednesday, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, the famous Flying Colonel, came aboard. The Colonel had dinner with Admiral Wiley, Commander-in-chief of the U.S. Fleet, and after dinner attended the movies. When the Colonel appeared at the movies 'All Hands' gave him a good hand. The Colonel waved his hand but begged off when asked to make a speech...
...Also aboard was Boston's Paul Revere (great-great-grandson) and bride...
Last week Chang chartered a tramp steamer and stepped aboard her at Dairen, with 250 hired soldiers of fortune including the "White Russian" General Ataman Seminov. Without the slightest hindrance from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...
...find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero's mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, returning from Turkey aboard the S. S. President Wilson, was to marry Capt. F. A. Anderson of that vessel. Soon it was discovered, however, that Capt. Anderson already possessed a wife of 39 years standing...
...Hoover told Mr. Smith about a prize pig that was put aboard his campaign train. Mr. Smith replied that, about the same time, he had received an ancient, lusty-throated rooster from a trans-Mississippi admirer who insisted that it symbolized "unterrified Democracy...