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...other lines to feed it about two-thirds of its business. But its straight-sweeping main line from Buffalo to Kansas City avoids the congestion at Chicago and St. Louis. The Wabash was therefore one of the biggest chips in the great consolidation poker game played by the Eastern trunk lines...
...Johns covered everything from murders to human interest yarns. Together with Augustus Thomas, later an eminent playwright, he reported the trial of the Maxwell-Preller murder case, which started out with a corpse in a trunk in the Southern Hotel, wound up with the hanging of an Englishman named Arthur Maxwell three years later. For their work on the case, Johns and Thomas got a bonus of $2.50 apiece. Once he sat beside the driver of James G. Elaine's coach all day, overheard enough of the conversation inside to write probably the most complete story...
...Three hundred sealed collections that may not be opened for many years. Among them: a trunk containing the records of a woman spy known only by number, but conjectured to be Mata Hari...
...shrewd investments, became the biggest individual owner of railroad stock in the country. With the gradual acquisition of large blocks of stock in Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from Chicago to California. A lifelong yachtsman who had girdled the world under canvas, he once sailed his yacht Aloha to Gibraltar from Sandy Hook in 16 days...
...bleeding canker disease, which appeared in New England ten years ago and makes trees ooze from small fissures, is now being treated by injections like those given to man and animals. A small hole is bored into the trunk, a rubber hose inserted and connected with a slow-seeping bottle of organic chemicals...