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Lincoln is a son of Joseph Lincoln, well known as the author of novels of Cape Cod life. Graduating from Harvard two years ago, he worked for a year as a reporter on the staff of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. During the past year he has been associated with the Curtis Publishing Company as a writer and editor...
...first voters approached the polls, they were greeted by a sally of thoroughly putrefied eggs. Pease meal followed, a light shower, and a few handfuls of soot. More voters appeared and the campaign arguments thickened-clouds of eggs, bursting with fabulous stench; here a rich asortment of cod heads raining down; there a herring, another, a shoal of flying herrings long since removed from the sea. Fogs of soot darkened the scene and a blizzard of meal. Scraping fish omelet from their eyes, the partisans closed in ardent wrestling bouts, the object being to keep your opponent from getting...
...still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps and tanks mix with ordinary city gas all the air it needs to burn efficiently anywhere." Hard by was a row of bottles with "white fish meal-for cattle," "impure glycerine-pure glycerine," "cod liver oil, certified grade," and other irrelevant mottoes. "Na, na!" said the gnarled Scot in charge, "we dinnae make sich stuff. Bit they ither folk employ oor mechines fir th' dryin' an' extracting...
...course, moreover, is considerably enlivened by Professor Kittredge's delightful digressions upon liberal education, the CRIMSON, Cape Cod, and Life-in-General; the acrobatic performances of his eyeglasses; and his dramatic exits down the aisles of Harvard...
...Yacht Mayflower sailing home from Swampscott with the presidential silver, china and servitors, making her way across Massachusetts Bay toward the Cape Cod Canal, was almost rammed by the liner Martha Washington. The Mayflower cut across the liner's bow and the Martha Washington was obliged to order full speed astern...