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...stood there I thought of Battleboro, and the Battleboro feeling for Memorial Day came over me, and I wanted to run, but I had on my own pants, and I knew that if I ran they'd shoot me in the pants. So there I stood, and the Boy Scout band passed, and on the drum there was labelled "Rotary Boy Scouts of Cambridge", and I wondered, if a boy scout does a good turn daily, what's the difference between a rotary boy scout and a whirling dervish. Hoping you are the same...
...many myriads have seen and heard and known George Wilham Mundelein. They have seen him as a Manhattan?? boy undecided whether to enter the army (his grandfather was the first Union soldier killed at Fort Sumter in the prelude to the Civil War) or to join the Catholic priesthood. They have known him at work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and in Chicago. They have heard his eloquence (he speaks several languages). They know ms gestures, his habit of forgetting names...
Arrived at this theory and in the hope of stimulating interest in aviation as a sport, the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation has offered a prize of $1,000 to the first U. S. boy or girl who successfully pilots a plane across the continent from San Francisco to Boston. The promoters point out that famed War aces had but barely emerged from puberty when daily zooming through riotous air-fusillades...
Parents of youngsters with the mechanical bent last week fumed and ejaculated. "Monstrous!" cried the father of a clever boy named Wilbur. "This is monstrous! Encouraging kids like Wilbur to try flying next . . . making them dissatisfied with automobiles, which are dangerous enough, goodness knows. This Society will have them running away from home, bumming around flying fields, hooking rides on the mail planes . . . reckless bravado . . . inexperienced . . . premature ascent . . . broken necks . . . weeping families ... a shameful offer . . . monstrous...
...What nationality is Mrs. Karl Boy...