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...Though Mount Vesuvius is ever a-seething and a-smoking, timid tourists do not fear to ascend, when told that the funicular railway is owned and run by Thomas Cook...
...Passed a bill authorizing $4,500,000 for a memorial highway to Mount Vernon...
...which took place between an Exalted Personage and one Albert Rowlands, laborer, employed by the Office of Public Works. Scene: near Hyde Park corner, on the famed bridle path called Rotten Row. Laborer Rowlands is laying a kerbstone along the edge of the Row. Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful...
Died. Moses Taylor, 57, Manhattan capitalist and famed dog-fancier; of apoplexy; in Mount Kisco...
General McCoy will return to Nicaragua to supervise on Nov. 4, 1928, in the name of the U. S., a Nicaraguan parliamentary election. Last week a detachment of Marines under Captain Robert S. Hunter were finally able to locate some of the elusive Sandinistas near Mount Pena Blanca. Result: Captain Hunter and Corporal William L. Williamson were killed, as were five Nicaraguans. The most lofty concept of what the U. S. is accomplishing in Nicaragua was recently voiced by U. S. Marine Corps Commander Major General John A. ("Leatherneck") Lejeune. Said he: "The Nicaraguan people need help, and the Marines...