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...railroad train is thundering through the night, between Boone, la., and Council Bluffs. The engineer is sick, fainting. The fireman drunk, at his post, does not know. On the block of track a mile ahead, a wheezy freight grumbles up a grade, behind schedule and on the flier's rails. Disaster whines through the cab window, for the prostrate engineer has not seen the block signal, his throttle yawns unheeded...
What is this? Miraculously the plunging express is slowing down, 50, 40, 30 only 20 miles an hour. But the freight is only half a mile ahead...
...high-potato prices this year will presumably leave starch-makers none at all. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is not worrying. Potato farmers in Maine are profiting under present high prices, even though output is lower. When they start spending the proceeds, the Aroostook expects very good inbound freight...
That he worked his way across the Atlantic as a freight and coal carrier, and then stepped ashore with diamonds on his hands was emphatically denied by Dr. Franz Von Oy, German student at the University, when shown the newspaper accounts of his trip to this country...
...Germany such a thing could never happen, and I cannot understand how the papers write such falsehoods", said Dr. Von Oy. "I do not come from Munich, but from Kiel. I don't wear diamonds, and far from being a coal and freight carrier, I came over as a guest of the captain...