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...basically Conservative, British people have stood the Socialistic experiments in a spirit of fair play. They have allowed the Labour government full rein, and gave it enough rope to hang itself which...
...Streets of New York, or Poverty Is No Crime. "It is a gloomy moment in history. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud dark and silent upon the horizon of Eu rope ; while all the energies, resources and influences of the British Empire are sorely tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely, in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection. ... Of our own troubles no man can see the end. If we are only to lose money and by painful poverty be taught wisdom, no man need...
...returns a few minutes later. Searchlights and floodlights are switched on. The Akron hovers cautiously low, drops landing lines which are seized by the ground crew who "run away" with them to check the ship's momentum. When the bow pokes over the landing panel, the nose rope is dropped, attached to the cable from the mooring mast. The cable drums are started. In a few minutes the Akron has been dragged up to the mast, her pointed snout snugly clamped into the cup of the mooring-mast...
...evidence awaited him if he could untangle the many and varied clues. The missing anchor had been found, but the rope was not the same size as the rope that had bound Collings. Two suspects had been seen at Norwalk, but they had departed. From the Hotel Charles in Springfield, Mass, had come word that an "F. E. Collingbourne & Wife" of Stamford, Conn, had registered there more than a year ago. A blanket from the Hotel Charles and a pair of large canvas shoes were found in the launch with Mrs. Collings. Fred J. Voos, president of the Bridgeport baseball...
...office he saw the prison yard suddenly seething with a bloody, vicious riot. A dozen convicts had captured Deputy Warden Giles. Three hundred others were milling in the yard armed with clubs and rocks. Some had guns. Louis Deathridge, a Missouri desperado, ran to the wall with a rope which had a hook on the end. He hurled the hook over the wall, started to climb. A blast of gunfire from the guards above sent Desperado Deathridge spinning. The prisoners in the yard roared with rage, retrieved his body...