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...Cone-Car Corp. Inland towns that have no talking cinema entertainment, nor any river to bring showboats, may soon be seeing and hearing pictures shown in theatre cars operated by Interstate Cone-Car Corp. Besides entertaining ruralists, Cone-Car will give performances on trains en route...
...guards and two other prisoners the Ford wheeled over the 40 miles to the State Farm. His one rheumy eye (the other, albino, is blind) for the first time saw automobiles, a steamshovel, a road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
Elevated trains stopped to watch. An advertising airplane roared and blinked overhead. A smart police cordon idled around in the outfield like alert mannikins on a playing board of green baize. But in the bottom of the cone of white light at the centre of it all, Fighters Schmeling and Uzcudun did much more butting, grasping and shoving than sparring, smacking, socking...
...night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five...
...Haven, Conn., May 24--Yale is favored in the field events while the runs appear almost evenly divided. Sturdy will take the pole vault, while Pond and Cone are favored for the other places, although Cleaver and Dunlap have chances for points. Moore and Harding will win the javelin, while Kiesling and Carr will throw for third...