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...Maybe that will teach you to keep out of the way of automobiles!" cried the motorist as he drove away...
...away from her wharf in Sydney, Nova Scotia, early one morning last week. Suddenly her superstructure, just forward of her one funnel, shook and belched with the flames of a violent explosion. An engineer staggered on deck, his face broiled, clothes hanging in sooty tatters. The fire, racing aft, drove two half-dressed women out of their cabin. They were badly roasted stumbling to the wharf. A man with a dory rescued the captain's young son from where he was marooned on the burning quarterdeck...
...last week, the Long Island Open. Spectators noted the colossal pair of pale grey plus fours in which his nether portions were encased. When the first 18 was over, Potter had scored 67, five under par, record breaking for the difficult No. 4 course at Salisbury Country Club. He drove a 310-yard green...
...with the added wealth of the two-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax which went into effect on Aug. 1 ? Will she have electric-lighted boulevards through the prairies? Will she have marble bridges? Unfortunately, she lost a little of her potential revenue when some 85% of her automobile owners drove to gasoline stations on the day before the tax began, and shouted: "Fill 'er up!" In Illinois the average retail price of gasoline has been 18c, including...
...boats easily make 50 miles per hour. Such boats turn over easily at 50 miles per hour. Drivers and mechanics hit the water hard and break ribs and eardrums easily. George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer, broke ribs and eardrums recently in testing his Greenwich Folly. Unafraid he drove and won last week the Gold Cup race...