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...uproar against Jews in general, was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to death. Governor John Marshall Slaton imperiled his own life by commuting Frank's sentence to life imprisonment. One attempt to kill Frank failed. The second, with young Bunce Napier at the wheel, succeeded. Frank was driven 110 mi. from the State penitentiary at Milledgeville to Marietta, hanged near Mary Phagan's birthplace. Decent Georgians still blush over the case...
...poured down at Marathon. To the right of the winding road, on hills where goats nibbled the brown grass, the rocks made sharp black shadows. To the left, a warm, slow spray varied the edge of the Aegean. Pheidippides, running toward Athens 22 mi. away, headed down the dusty road...
When Pheidippides staggered up to the city gates, announced that the Persians had been defeated and fell dead of exhaustion, he was lucky. In a modern marathon race, he would have failed to reach the finish. The 193 runners who left Hopkinton, Mass, last week had 26 mi., 385 yd.* between them and Exeter Street in Boston. A light wind fanned into their faces. Old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won the Boston Marathon seven times, waved to his friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along...
...father, he took a medical course at University of Vermont, two years later went West. Conventional practice in Tacoma seemed no more promising than farm or mill, but in 1909 Dr. Bridge at last found what he was looking for. He bought an industrial contract practice in Eatonville, 30 mi. southwest of Tacoma. By 1923 Dr. Bridge was rich and ready to expand. Leaving his Eatonville hospital and contracts in charge of his first assistant surgeon, he bought the practice of a contract surgeon in Tacoma, set about becoming a medical tycoon in earnest. As new contracts flowed...
...Gallagher sat in the back seat of their car while Mr. Gallagher's sister drove them from Boston to New York. Near New Haven, Mrs. Gallagher was pleased to see her husband relax, close his eyes, decided not to wake him. Not until she reached New York (73 mi.) did she realize that he was dead...