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Next day the first change was made at Barnegat. Past the Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton the coach swayed along, just missed a beer truck before arriving at Absecon. There, in sight of her goal across the causeway, Mrs. Dibble again took the reins. Averaging 16.2 m.p.h. for the four and a half mile stretch to the city line, the coach rolled up to Haddon Hall at 6:10 p. m. to be greeted by fire bells, a siren, the Mayor's secretary, officials of the Atlantic City Horse Show, for which the drive was a resounding advertisement. Running...
Scarcely 24 hours later, during the race, Spangler's sleek Miller speedster bounced over Driver Malcolm Fox's car, went hurtling into the racetrack wall. The impact flung Spangler and his mechanic on their faces against the brick causeway. Crushed beyond recognition, Spangler died in a hospital. His mechanic was killed almost immediately...
There are a Ringling Boulevard and a Main Ringling Boulevard, Ringling Causeway, Ringling Island and Ringling Trust & Savings Bank, but the town is still called Sarasota, Fla. The bank and all the shops were closed last week to honor the latest benefaction of Sarasota's first citizen: the opening of the Junior College and School of Art of the John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher and Congressman Herbert Jackson Drane were there to make speeches. Bishop John Monroe Moore gave the benediction of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His moonlike face wreathed in smiles, John...
...best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...
...small island in Lake Michigan, accessible to Chicago's Grant Park by a causeway, gathered last week Julius Rosenwald, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Rufus Dawes, Max Adler and many Chicago bigwig. In a squatty rainbow granite building which looked much like a giant derby hat resting on a pedestal, they sat down, craned their necks to watch the ceiling...