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Next day Springfielders gaped at the most amazing papers they had ever seen. The Republican and Union were printed in typewriting (see cut). Only the conventional banner designs distinguished the two front pages, each set in four wide columns containing two dozen short items. Here and there the eight-page sheets were broken with real type of advertisements already set up, with comic strips or stereotyped features. Evening editions came out in the same form...
...Have three good-looking young girls walking in single file, tolling school bells and carrying a Werewolf banner. They will sound a curfew for all who would be careful to avoid werewolves. The sign reads: . . . 'Bar Your Doors. Lock Your Windows. Go to the Strand...
...Hedly G. Stacey of Dearborn pronounced a benediction. And the 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists squiggled their names below Mr. Garvan's. When they all had signed and the Fordson High School band had saluted their gesture with the "New World" symphony, "Coronation Banner" and "The Star Spangled Banner," two expected names were lacking. Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont, after lunching with the propagandists, had decamped for an isolated afternoon together...
...including "American Medley" and "Under the Double Eagle." Then portly Mrs. Tubman, who looks something like old Marc Schumann-Heink and boasts that she "can sing with or without a 60-piece band," mounted the stone platform in front of Washington's statue, launched into "The Star-Spangled Banner" while the band blared mightily and the crowd of 1,000 looked on. munching their lunches...
...years ago, bound for a meeting. Mrs. Tubman was sitting in a Manhattan subway train when a group of Communists got on, lustily sang the "Internationale." Patriot Tubman flushed red, white & blue, burst into "The Star-Spangled Banner." As the angry Communists sang louder, she pitched her voice higher & higher. More Communists got on. Finally Mrs. Tubman had to get off to attend her meeting...