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...gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
After he left Enid, Bates spent $50,000 collecting evidence and affidavits to substantiate this proof. He published The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, This is that book enlarged; romanticized by the keen, sympathetic author of The Soul of Ann Rutledge and The Soul of Abe Lincoln...
Dentists have been extracting infected teeth as alleviation of bad tonsils, sore eyes, arthritis and certain heart affections. But this procedure has not always been based on positive proof that the teeth were responsible. Doctors and dentists urged those attending to be cautious hereafter in wholesale extracting...
...wide area of the Valley made a clearing of the entire rock foundation impossible. On the other hand, at Gizeh, there was every necessity for making the plaster absolutely smooth with the rock and completely camouflaged. The failure on the part of the architects to do this seemed sufficient proof to Rowe and Greenees that the stairs were false and led nowhere...
...that he enjoys life's human minutiae, which is extraordinary when you consider with what bloodless generalities a publicist has to make friends. Friend of Eugene Field, friend of bees and bootblacks, bovines and businessmen, icemen and janitors, iris and blue jays, "David Grayson" is almost always proof against his own sentimentalities. These essays on innocent recklessness in the making of friends reflect an enthusiasm that is as far from wallowing as from warping. They were written for private satisfaction; they should cause public delight...