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...little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support for the Republican ticket...
...years 75 men in the New York City Department of Sanitation have led double lives. Ostensibly employed as street cleaners, stablemen and garbage truck drivers, they have spent much of their time tootling on brass instruments, dressing themselves up in gorgeous blue & gold uniforms to furnish music for city celebrations. The sanitation bandsmen welcomed the King & Queen of the Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Lloyd George, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and many another. Unless there was snow to be cleaned off the streets the department allowed them generous time off for rehearsal. But last week they...
...understood and liked such talk. That night the first B. & 0. train rolled west carrying 800 veterans, their wives and children. Next day two more chuffed off from the siding near the camp. With a brass band the Mayor was there to shake hands, kiss babies, distribute small change. The evacuation was well under way after ramshackle cars were given a free tank of gasoline and $1 to start them over the mountains...
...goes off to the family "work-shop," tries to infect his father, his brother John with his disease. At first they are doubtful of such folly as to give up cod fishing for lobster potting in the middle of winter, but eventually Marney's visions of "tons of brass," and the challenge to outwit, outdare the Fosdycks wins them over...
...Blum works in the Manhattan Department of Plant & Structures. His friend Abraham Rosenberg works for Manhattan Terazzo Brass Co. They go sailing at the Bronxonia Yacht Club, at Throg's Neck, N. Y. Last winter Nat Blum and Abraham Rosenberg wondered why they should not borrow their friend David Rosenstein's 49-foot ketch, the Curlew, and enter the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton. Cruising Club officials, examining the. boats for seaworthiness, paid special attention to the Curlew but finally decided...