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Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...
...early cool of one morning, an army corps of jungle veterans mobilized around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat...
...advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them and cut across Outer Mongolia to sever the Trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal. By that slashing of a vital artery, Japan could consider that she had all but assassinated Soviet Eastern Asia and that Vladivostok, cut off from Moscow, must surrender like Port Arthur. To minimize the effect of such a thrust, if it should come, Russia is now frantically rushing...
...first seven lines of an acrostic continuing through Florida East Coast Railway, this verse was written by one J. B. Killegrew and included in a souvenir booklet issued in 1912 during the festivities that marked the opening of the so-called "Key West Extension," the 128-mile over-water rail route to the southernmost city in the U. S. It was dedicated, as was virtually everything else on that occasion, to Henry Morrison Flagler, most brilliant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil partners. Having lavished his brains and his oil wealth on a Florida railroad and Florida hotels...
...will, Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler Bingham made one provision which has kept lawyers guessing ever since. For 21 years the residuary estate was to be used at the trustee's discretion "for the purpose of carrying out the maintenance, administration and development of the Florida East Coast Railway and Flagler hotels, the primary purpose of this trust being the keeping together of the enterprise into which my beloved husband, Henry M. Flagler, put so much of his energy, ambition and life...