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William Gillette, the theater's late great Sherlock Holmes, was presumably at ease about the overwhelming stone castle and miniature railway he left on his hilltop estate at Hadlyme, Conn. The borzoi-faced star had been the live-steaming engineer on his three-mile Connecticut Nutmeg & Great Western, whipped his friends wildly about in its little observation cars. When he died in 1937 at the age of 71, he declared in his will: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind...
Removals. In Rosalia, Wash., H. C. Roberts, who had already got rid of a corn by cutting off his little toe, got rid of another by cutting off his other little toe. In St. Augustine, Fla., somebody finally got the nickels from a Florida East Coast Railway pay toilet by making off with the door...
...Chaplino, a railway junction 60 miles from Zaporozhe. To take it, Red Cavalry and tanks broke through the German rear...
This week, the Russians stormed into Bryansk, pivotal stronghold of the Nazi's central and southern fronts, after overrunning the railway network on the east bank of the Desna, climbing over the bodies of some 2,000 German troops...
Across the nation, wrecks occurred. Most were minor. None was as costly as in the preceding eight days, when 109 people were killed in three Eastern railway disasters. But they came with a shuddering frequency that showed the increasing strain of the railroads' job. The locomotive and four cars of the Milwaukee Road's crack Olympian were derailed by a buckled rail south of Seattle (five injured). Two Nickel Plate engines collided head-on at Brocton, N.Y. (none seriously hurt...