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...lost, all told, some $3,500,000. Thus when Field's chairman, James O. McKinsey, last week put his signature to a contract conveying the Davis Store to Morris, Nathan, Louis & Joseph Goldblatt (for a carefully concealed price), Mr. McKinsey was, in effect, relieving his firm of a bucket with a hole in the bottom of it. Well did the Goldblatts know it. Nevertheless, this entry into State Street was a crown on their careers...
Fire almost completely demolished the large awning over the Kirkland House dining room piazza last night about 10.15 o'clock. A hastily organized bucket brigade from the House at first tried to cope with it by pouring pails of water over the awning, but when the blaze appeared to be getting out of hand the Cambridge Fire Department was summoned...
Third box, addressed to Judge Benjamin R. Jones, was intercepted by postal officials. Former Sheriff Luther Kniffen's box had a defective fuse. Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, was intercepted at Hazelton before it reached another James Gorman. That evening fire, supposed to have been started by an incendiary bomb, gutted the first floor of St. Mary's Rectory of Wilkes-Barre...
...most famed colony, on which he never set foot, was Virginia. Thence he imported and did his best to popularize smoking tobacco. (Biographer Thompson sets down as apocryphal the story of Ralegh's alarmed servant, who seeing smoke coming from his" master's mouth! dashed a bucket of water over him.) He spent ?40,000 trying to get Virginia started, finally handed it over to a London company...
...Chorus (to the tune of The Old Oaken Bucket): The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush, The old family toothbrush That hangs in the sink. First it was father's, Then it was mother's, Then it was sister's; Now it is mine...