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...spoke of selling her to a man named Felipe. They cut off her hair, threatened to cut off a scarred finger and send it to her mother. "I prayed constantly and talked to them of God. I'll bet they were tired of hearing my preaching. . . ." Then the cabin, somewhere beyond Mexicali, where they left her alone for an unguarded hour; she sawed through her rope on a tin can, wandered all night over cactus and mesquite ... At last the road to Douglas ... a Friend . . . safety . . . escape...
...Hazard, Ky., one Lucy Napier, 25, arrived at the railroad station with some things done up in a bundle. She had walked 40 miles from her father's hill cabin to take the train for Happy, Ky., where she was going to be married. She had never seen a train before, and as the old-fashioned car bumped over the rails toward Viper, Ky., she sat trembling on the edge of her seat. The conductor shoved his red face around the edge of the door. "Vi-p-e-E-R," he shouted, "V-I-I-per." Lucy Napier jumped...
...definitely announced that the President and Mrs. Coolidge would summer at White Pine Camp, property of Irwin R. Kirkwood, publisher of the Kansas City Star. It is a 60-acre camp on Osgood Lake (one of the St. Regis group). The cabin for the President has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a housekeeper's room, a sewing room, an attic. There are also a dining cabin, four guest cabins, a Japanese tea house, an open-air theatre, two bowling alleys, tennis courts, a billiard cabin, stables, two garages, a superintendent's house, a gardener's house, a greenhouse...
Then a scout contest was held for "stunts." First prize was given to a skit, Mr. Everyman Gets a Wife in 1936 (Everyman picked a Girl Scout because she could cook). Second prize went to a troop that built a log cabin, a foot bridge and a campfire in three minutes. A troop of young Negresses was honored for portraying a Girl Scout giving her seat to an old man in a street car, another troop for showing Girl Scouts rescuing flappers lost in the woods, a third troop for depicting "the wreck of the 20th Century...
...Bennett and I shook hands simply, and then I went back into the cabin, stood at attention and saluted for Admiral Peary. The Navy had reached the Pole again, the blessed old Navy...