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...with four companions. Of the trip she said: "There is not much fun in it unless you do it for God." Arrived in New Orleans, she soon made a 40-day trip to St. Louis where the local Bishop welcomed her to his "palace," a barn, and his "cathedral," a shanty in which the prelate doubled as priest and choir. Mother Duchesne founded her first convent at St. Charles, Mo., in 1821, built schools, evangelized the Potawatomi Indians. In all she founded six houses before she died in 1852 in St. Charles...
Other yarns: Oscar Cowlie found that he could milk his cows quicker if he took his. radio to the barn, tuned in on fast tempo music; Charles Nestor noticed the backs of his sheep were getting bare, investigation showed that swallows had picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
...never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned in the barn below Fredericksburg, Va. but Dr. Mudd and seven other persons accused of aiding the assassin were in jail. Hauled before Secretary of War Stanton's Military Commission, the eight were summarily divided-four for Death, three for life imprisonment, one for six years...
...British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers...
...altogether perfect, George Brush had once, beset by a girl in a barn, sinned. Thereafter he regarded himself as married, sought her everywhere. When he found her again she was a waitress in Kansas City and not glad to see him, but he wore down her resistance, married her. His great ambition was to have a fine American home. But experience, domestic and otherwise, gradually undermined George Brush's faith that he could get better and better until he was perfect. He lost his faith, his health, nearly died. But he was a strong young man. He recovered...