Word: flambeaux
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...orders from their mayor and boss, Anton Cermak. when Governor Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years had Chicago seen such...
...bleached relics were paraded through the drizzly streets of Warsaw, 200,000 church dignitaries, Catholic societies, humble worshipers led by Cardinal Alexander Kakowski walked through the streets gleaming in the garish flicker of flambeaux and lanterns. Finally the precious saintly casket was taken to the vieux carré of the city and placed in the Jesuit Church, from which the next day it was removed after the convention opening, and whisked back by automobile, to Rostkow, the saint's birthplace...
THERE are still a few flambeaux left. Those who wish them must call early...
...should remember that Uniforms must be bougth before 4 p. m. today at Roberts Hall and the wigs for the Law School men will be ready at the same place. Flambeaux can be procured at the republican headquarters in Holworthy and there are also a few megaphones to be had after...
...officers for the parade will get their uniforms at Roberts Hall and all lieutenants must also get flambeaux during the morning at 9 Holworthy Hall...