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One hundred and eight convicts escaped from North Carolina prisons and prison camps last month. Each day into the office of the Durham Herald-Sun ticked A. P. dispatches from Raleigh naming the runaways, giving details. For 24 July days Telegraph Editor John R. Barry bit his pencil for a...
"Vanderbilt's Daughter," an old Virginia ballad appearing in Eight Negro Songs collected by Francis H. Abbott in 1923, includes lines which might well be the source of parts of "Casey Jones." Samples:
Last week some vacationers packed into suitcases the worthy books they had no time to read last winter. But more were content merely to tuck under their arms a book or two of romantic light fiction that would serve to while away a train journey or fill in a rainy...
At long tables in a Manhattan loft building sat half a hundred girls, their deft fingers flying between stacks of folded rotogravure pages, piles of little fabric squares, and pots of paste. All day long, day after day for a week, they neatly pasted the little squares of cloth onto...
The advertisement cost Macy's $3,000; about $1,000 for the space, $2,000 for the fabric and insertion. Results, according to Macy's, were phenomenal. One skeptical customer laundered the swatch overnight, convinced himself it would not shrink, then ordered a dozen shirts. Shirts and towels...