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...night before, Mrs. Ella Henderson, a Braggadocio widow of 31 with two children, had called the constable and told him that she had been attacked. From her emotional description the constable made out that Mrs. Henderson's assailant was Will Sherod, 30, a Negro, whom he forthwith lodged in Pemiscot County jail, 15 miles from Braggadocio...
...surrounds the proposed University dining hall. The authorities are behind the project; the building will go up forthwith if only the students, whose need it is supposed to meet, show themselves conscious of a need. The persistence of the University in forwarding the project attests to the sincerity with which it is being pushed from above. The offer to erect the hall was first made contingent upon prospective interest in the Union's system of club tables. When this interest failed to materialize in force, it was seen that particular reasons, among them the location of the Union itself...
...nuisances are the desired objects rather than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
...another Jockey, Clarence Kummer, who was hired to ride Mr. Whitney's Whiskery in the Kentucky Derby. But Kummer was recently suspended at Pimlico for rough riding. Mr. Whitney, forthwith, turned to Jockey McAtee with a "won't-you-come-back." Jockey McAtee came with a light heart and a light body...
...business). In Central High School there has been for 23 years a popular teacher, Lulu J. Dickinson, who preaches the humanities and tries to steer her pupils toward college. On March 14, the school board ousted her because she had been twitting its members before her classes. Forthwith, sly pupils wrote on blackboards: "We want our Lulu back." On April Fool's Day, 1,000 students went on strike. Their parents backed them, held mass meetings, threatened to take all Superior children out of school unless Miss Dickinson was reinstated. Last week the school board returned Miss Dickinson...