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...some day soon- announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, the next number of the program will be a raid. The place is in the custody of the Federal Government." Hostess Livingstone fled across her wee golf course, tried to get to one of the windows which she had prudently equipped with rope ladders to the street below. She was caught, jailed, later released on $2,000 bond. The entertainment over, the cheer confiscated, dismally the guests went home. It was not the first time that Belle Livingstone-who tells stories about her friends Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Kitchener, Edward VII, King Leopold...
...champion went down on. his face and the people who had laid 3 to i knew their money was gone : when a fighter falls on his face he seldom gets up. At the count of seven Singer flopped over on his back. His face was under the ropes and looking up he took hold of the middle rope, pulled himself half erect. But the count had ended and he had lost his title...
...Mandan, N. Dak., Edward Loran often told friends he would fool his wife by pretending to hang himself. Last fortnight his body was found suspended in his cellar, the feet one-quarter inch from the floor. Edward Loran had misjudged the rope-length...
...vaudeville acts are no worse or no better than usual. "Mantell's Manikins" put on the best act of the program with a varied assortment of marionettes performing. Will and Gladys Ahern, formerly of Simple Simon, are a close second best with a repertoire of rope spinning and wisecracking. The other acts keep the average down...
...sawed his way into his train's money car, overpowered the guard, and while the train was still in motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night towards Utica. This time he smashed a window, shot the guard's gun out of the guard's hand, kept him covered until the train got to Utica. There he boarded a locomotive and raced off down the track with...