Word: trailings
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...sawed off 15 ft. of exposed telephone trunk line cable for their sport. In Newark, N. J., Pasquale Bellott, n, James Dowd, n, and Pasquale Lordi, 13, wired two spikes to the tracks of the Central R. R. of New Jersey, dragged a piece of pork across their trail to prevent being followed by hounds, waited for a train to come by. A switch engine backed across the spikes, its crew removed them, preventing disastrous derailment of a Newark-New York express. In Louisville, Ky., small Charlie Bradshaw found a sack of paperhanger's paste powder, took it home...
...best but most dangerous road from New Orleans to the Midwest. Ol' Man Mississippi brought the cargoes down, but it was more than sail or paddle could do to get all the way upstream again. The gold went back in saddle bags over the narrow, bandit-infested trail stretching from Natchez, Miss, to Knoxville, Tenn...
...inheritance and his hard-earned money to Ann's husband, who sinks it in a wildcat gold mine. There is a murder, a bank robbery, Ann's husband deserts her, her father is arrested. The scene shifts to a Western desert: Pierre is hotfoot on the missing husband's trail. He finds him ... a gold mine (the great lode of Mother Mountain!) is discovered . . . there is not enough water for two . . . another murder. In the sheriff's office at Red Butte, Pierre, given up for dead (no man could get through Skeleton Sink alive) stumbles in to confront the sheriff...
...city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
...19th and 20th Centuries in England and the U. S. has been one of alternating gains and losses. Hence he predicts: "If we do not have better fortune or manage better in the future than we have managed in the past, the recent spurt in wages will trail off, and after a time give way to a slow relapse, later to be followed by fresh advance...