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Twelve miles out of St. Louis last week the westbound "Texas Special" of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad, clicking along at 40 m. p. h., plunged into a rock pile on the tracks. Its locomotive and baggage car were demolished; the next two cars flopped over; rails and ties went flying; passengers were tossed, crushed, trapped, battered. Killed: 6; injured...
Lords Ailsa and Cassillis in their opinion of life on St. Kilda. A tiny peak of rock in the North Atlantic, 40 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year. No trees can grow there, no cats can live there, no horses, no rabbits, no rats. The St. Kildans (a population of 30 to 100 has lived there for centuries) speak nothing but Gaelic, do not bother to shear their wild sheep but pull the wool out by the fistful. They live on potatoes and sea birds. In winter, when...
Walter Ferguson, Sterling supporter, declared his brother Jim was "no more interested in the common people than a hog in rock pile." On primary day some 900,000 Texas Democrats, deeply stirred by the campaign, went to the polls, cast a record vote which nominated Candidate Sterling by a majority of almost 100,000. The entire big-city press of Texas agreed with him when he claimed his victory was a "triumph of good government" and the end of "Fergusonism." Nominee Sterling, sure of election, will have perfunctory opposition in November from Dr. Charles Butte, Republican gubernatorial nominee. Born poor...
...party of Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...
...orange monoplane last week swooped down on the coal-mining district around Providence, Webster County, Ky. and dropped nine crude dynamite bombs. Five exploded, cast columns of rock and dirt in the air, did no other damage...