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...come to Genova. Genova is a city of some 650,00 inhabitants, one night club, a Lido with American shower baths, Paganini's violin, 666 places where Columbus slept, an impressive monument to Cristoforo Colombo and the one and only place where he was born. This latter is a small two story stone house with bars over the windows, a noble inscription saying whose house it was and in much bigger letters a warning saying that anyone posting bills here will be prosecuted...
Child of Trouble. The night Morris Watson was born his mother died, and his house burned down. That was in Joplin, Mo., Jan. 29, 1901. He ran away from home in 1915 having completed but one year of high school; 1916 found him a soldier in the U. S. Army on the Mexican Border. A year later he landed in France, a private in the 18th Infantry, 1st Division, A.E.F. Hotheaded, he was swapping punches with a sergeant inside a barracks room one day when another soldier entered, started helping the sergeant. Watson grabbed a chair and knocked the newcomer...
Texan to Texans. In Dallas fortnight ago at a hearing to ascertain facts about the Colonel's domicile many a loyal old Texan went before Surrogate Owen's Commissioner, Raymond C. Prime, to vouch for Hetty Green's London-born son as a Texan. Among them was a tall, lanky Negro named William Madison ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, 70 and rich. He was Colonel Green's political lieutenant between 1897 and 1909 at a salary of $575 per month. Recalled...
...Boston Red Sox baseball team broke training at Sarasota. Fla., started north without Manager Joseph Cronin, whose wife had twins (boy & girl) born Shortstop Eric McNair, whose wife died in childbirth at Meridian. Miss.; Sec-Baseman Oscar Melillo, whose wife suttered a relapse in Chicago following the birth...
...mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high-speed logging operations had not yet penetrated. Here they counted for something. They were building a new country and a flag was raised every time "an American was about to be born." It was not until George and Alfred were out of high school and helping their father try to clear a farm of 5-ft. tree stumps that they got a taste of the backbreaking side of pioneer life, the poor future in it. After a year, having cleared one acre, they...