Word: depots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, as he was being led into a slaughter depot, Julius, oldtime brewery horse, snapped his rope halter and dashed in front of a truck to his death. "Suicide," said the magistrate. "Julius was high strung,'' said Owner Andrew Smith...
...firm of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed where she had taken dictation from Count Rene when he worked in their office. Sailing for Paris, she got a job with Count René before proceeding to surprise her parents. Last week she arrived at Schoenberg, a tiny German customs depot on the Saar border and, as usual, said what she conscientiously thinks...
...burnings, tar-&-featherings. Somebody stole the elaborate metal hitching rack from the courthouse. Somebody else burned down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
Suddenly emerging from hiding, General Johnson appeared at NRA headquarters, called all hands into the auditorium. Quoting freely from the classics, the Bible and the remount depot, the voluble warrior urged his followers not to resign through "sentimental foolishness," thanked them for their devotion. Said he: "I predicted this end from the very beginning. Red fire at first, dead cats and oblivion at the end." There was not a dry eye in the house, including the General's when he concluded: "Goodby. God bless...
...wish your bright young men had given us a photo of a ton of the love of money being transported to the Townsend Street depot...