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Next day the first change was made at Barnegat. Past the Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton the coach swayed along, just missed a beer truck before arriving at Absecon. There, in sight of her goal across the causeway, Mrs. Dibble again took the reins. Averaging 16.2 m.p.h. for the four and a half mile stretch to the city line, the coach rolled up to Haddon Hall at 6:10 p. m. to be greeted by fire bells, a siren, the Mayor's secretary, officials of the Atlantic City Horse Show, for which the drive was a resounding advertisement. Running...
...with shady insurance deals involving municipal properties, connivance with keepers of bordellos (TIME, Feb. 24) ; with a brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Wiley, and a cousin, Mrs. Margaret Siracusa; when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a railroad train at Absecon, N. J. He was shortly to have been tried on the remaining ten counts...
...story of many a football game but it will happen no more. The National Football Rules Committee, meeting in wintry seclusion at Absecon, N. J., last week, voted a new provision which makes a fumbled ball recovered by the defensive side "dead" at the point of recovery. The new rule "will not apply in case of forward passing, nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore." The committee justified its change with the explanation that a fumble is the error of but one player, not the team...
Leaving Asheville, the Candidate and his party moved up to Absecon, N. J., for more golf, more rest, less public politics...