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...have held a larger audience than Horatie Alger. Little boys have sat out behind the barn blowing large clouds of cornsilk smoke heavenwards as they perused the pages of "Bound to Rise" with the condescension of a savant. Mothers have crawled beneath the had to salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live...
...once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...
...reputed to be the world's largest captive elephant (six tons), has had more than his share. Despite this, and though he is grey, not white, Tusko has been a trial & tribulation to a succession of owners. Because he ran wild in Sedro Woolley, Wash., the Al G. Barnes Circus gave him to a carnival operator. The carnival operator left him at the Oregon State Fair. Two months ago the fair board sold him to Elephant Trainers Bayard Gray and Jack O'Grady for his board bill ($200). Messrs. Gray & O'Grady kept him in a barn...
Tired of captivity, Tusko broke out of his chains, butted down one wall of his barn, wandered outside. There he amused himself by tearing a door from the barn, tossing it around, while Owners O'Grady & Gray telephoned for police. Ten police sharpshooters went to the scene, hesitated to shoot because of the crowd. Amateur marksmen had to be restrained. Mayor George Baker forbade an execution, but ordered a machine gun squad to stand guard while steel cables were fashioned into nooses. Hay was spread over the nooses, the cable ends fastened to trucks. Tusko reached...
...April 26, 1865, twelve days after the Ford's Theatre tragedy, a dying man was taken from a burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va. by U. S. troopers who believed they had captured and killed Booth. The body, removed to Washington, was hastily identified as Booth's and secretly buried in the Arsenal Grounds. Four years later it was exhumed, removed to Baltimore, again identified by friends and reburied in the Booth lot in Greenmount Cemetery...