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Delay In Denver, Colo., a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad train arrived four hours late because the train repeatedly stopped for no apparent reason. Investigation disclosed that an elephant in the baggage car had spent the trip pulling the airbrake rope with its trunk...
Vermont's legislature is now bicameral chiefly out of respect for the independence of her little towns. In the lower house each city and town, from Glastenbury with seven inhabitants, to Burlington with 25,000 has one representative...
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...which the Senator diligently mows, with shrubs which he diligently clips- Mrs. Norris began wrapping the comfortable old-fashioned furniture in sheets, a handy man began nailing up the shutters. Only one thing was unusual. When the Norrises went to the railroad station and boarded a train on the Burlington, their tickets read not to Washington, D. C. but to Lincoln, Neb. George Norris was going this time to present to the people of Nebraska, "who have done so much for me," something "that will benefit them after I am dead, that will benefit their children after them": a unicameral...
...Fowlerville, Mich., portly Mrs. Stella Barnhouse was informed she had been declared "World's Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...