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Veiled Prophet. Thoughtfully he emerged 15 min. ahead of time from the fastness of "Khorassan.'' a dingy car barn on Ranken Avenue. With him came forth 19 floats depicting scenes from the life of Washington, towed by caparisoned horses along the street car tracks for a 6-mi...
...turned historically toward revolution in Leicester, a rusty old red brick English city on the Soar (into which upright Leicesterians hurled the corpse of detested King Richard III). In 1841 Leicester gave birth to Thomas Cook's first "Cook's Tour"-from Leicester to Loughborough (some 10 mi.) and back. Today Leicester busies herself chiefly in making women's stockings. Last week her proletarians welcomed with lusty cheers the 32nd Annual Congress (convention) of the British Labor Party...
...Gould railroad domain is known by the corporate title of Aroostook Valley Railroad Co. It consists of 36.60 mi. of 70-lb. tracks threading through the potato-rich Aroostook Valley, connecting with the Canadian Pacific at Washburn Junction and Bangor & Aroostook ("The Potato Road") at Washburn. Its stations include Sweden. Adaline, Caribou, Bugbee, Carson and Presque Isle Junction, near where dwells Mr. Gould. Freight comprises 85% of its business, there being 140 potato depots holding 5.000.000 bu. of potatoes along its right-of-way. The road is electrified, buying its power from a station...
Preacher Rose soon took to preaching there also. Presently the parishioners of an abandoned Methodist Church at West Fairlee offered him its pulpit. He accepted. He even got the three Roman Catholic families in the district to send their children to his Sunday School. Preacher Rose makes the 28-mi. round of his three parishes in an old automobile, carrying in winter a shovel to dig his way. He calls regularly on all his 700 parishioners, preaches three times every Sunday. Says he: ''On the side roads, one has to walk in the winter time. . . . West Fairlee...
...earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle threw...