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Near Cresco, Iowa, last week, an automobile sped down a road, a tire blew out, the car turned over, flames burst forth. Out from beneath, unhurt, crawled U. S. Representative Gilbert Nelson Haugen, co-author with U. S. Senator Charles Linza McNary (Oregon) of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times...
...jail a Mrs. Anna Kessler rushed at cowering Mr. Koch. "You rat," she yelled, "you ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...
When the first financial scandal burst in 1892 De Lesseps was convicted of misappropriating money. Fifty million pounds sterling had vanished. Sentence was later remitted because he had only too sanguinely desired to repeat the triumph he had achieved for France in building the Suez Canal in Egypt...
Today in particular is the Vagabond ready to burst forth. Late last night he disturbed the occupants of a certain dormitory with his efforts to master the war whoop of a Dartmouth Indian on the march, so that he might be polite when he greets his New Hampshire friends. And his spirit is so buoyant that he expects to get his quota of enjoyment out of his Section 17 perch in the Stadium. To all luckier and less lucky brethren he wishes a strong weekend...
...battery of automatically-aimed 3-inch "archies" at 27-foot sock-shaped targets towed 1,200 yards behind bombing planes more than two miles aloft. Giant searchlights picked out the "socks". Machine gun tracer bullets streaked aloft. White flowers with angry red centres blossomed abruptly and faded where shrapnel burst in the sky. A direct hit of the last target's towline ended the show. Experts pronounced the anti-aircraft marksmanship the best yet achieved...