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Sixteen East Gay Street is a picture of a street in Columbus, Ohio. Several people are walking along the sidewalk and a pair of children are fixing a tricycle. In the space between the two houses across the street the sky slants a light on the asphalt, and makes the leaves of the trees as bright as coins. It is late afternoon; in the golden twilight everything seems very quiet. If you look at the picture long enough, the man sitting on the porch will fold up his paper and go in to have supper...
...tree-lined stretch of asphalt road...
Clarence H. De Mar of Melrose, Mass., 38, who sets type six days and teaches Sunday School the seventh, last week jogged over 26 miles and 385 yards of warm asphalt in 2 hr. 40 min. 221/5 sec., won the annual marathon of the Boston A. A. for the fifth time...
High, high above the streaming, teaming asphalt, at least 18 inches above the ground, now stands the officer of the day. On all four sides of him are bright, white canvas sides. On one of these are emblazoned the magic words testifying to the powers which sanctioned the construction of the imposing edifice--"Cambridge Police", no less...
Another time, workmen roped off a main London thoroughfare, spat on their palms, swung picks all morning, sat on the edge of the gaping asphalt to eat their lunches, continued their havoc until sundown, then returned to their colleges and usual clothes. Weeks of traffic congestion failed to reveal the hoax...