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...progress of Prohibition in the field of international agreement has been rapid since the first so-called Twelve-Mile-Limit Treaty with Great Britain (providing for the seizure of rum ships within an hour's sailing distance .of the coast, in exchange for allowing foreign ships to come into U. S. ports with liquors under seal). That treaty was several months in negotiation; it was signed late last January...
...that will cover the entire distance, but in each state a special escort, five to ten miles in length with floats, tractors, automobiles in line will help along the demonstration. Rallies will be held in the principal towns and the caravan will attempt a general jubilation and Republicanization from coast to coast...
...safe, homeward bound, with all on board well. Our little 88-foot schooner, which has been frozen in the ice for 320 days, eleven degrees from the North Pole, has poked her way down the coast of Greenland almost on schedule. We should reach Labrador in a few days and Wiscasset, Me., by Sept...
...between are the editors conspicuous in their communities as editors? William Allen White [Emporia, Kan.] is the shining example. In Columbus, Georgia, Julian Harris, struggling bravely with his Enquirer-Sun, bids fair to 'become for the South what 'Bill' White is for the prairies. . . . On the coast there is Fremont Older, lone survivor of a bygone epoch, who by virtue of his character, repute and personal following maintains an exceptional autonomy under Hearst ownership. There are the Scripps-Howard papers, a notable chain of twenty-six dailies in large and medium-sized cities, where the central editorial control...
...preceded the U. S. couple out of Reykjavik by a few minutes, did not turn up in Ivigtut that night. The Americans had last seen him as they neared the Greenland fog banks and felt sure he had not overshot his mark. Searchers from Ivigtut cruised the perilous icebound coast to eastward, Esquimaux trotted along the shore, looking, looking. Late Sunday night, 125 miles from shore, floating helplessly with a dead motor, Locatelli and his companions were sighted amid the waves by the U. S. cruiser Richmond, were taken aboard worn with fatigue but sound. To save the patrol ships...