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...issued a warrant for his arrest, charged him with committing a malicious mischief. The constables of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia were furnished descriptions of mustachioed, baldheaded, large-eared Borglum and Accessory Tucker. The hunt began, continued for two days. Excited loafers from the depot declared that a man of Borglum's kind had boarded a train for Cincinnati; a garage keeper in the town of Grayson, Georgia, telephoned that such a fellow had procured some gasoline from him and driven off hastily in a muddy motor. These reports were shown to be inaccurate when Borglum himself...
Into the Back Bay depot, Boston, last week pounded 16 special Pullman cars, 26 enormous baggage cars. From the one came forth many persons, male and female, sleepy-eyed and hungry; from the other, chairs, rocks, castles, cannons and other properties. It was the Chicago Opera Company arrived in Boston for a two-weeks' engagement. When they had rested, fed, the principals and their assistants began to give performances for enthusiastic Bostonians. La Boheme they gave with Mme. Edith Mason, Mr. Cortis; Boris Godunov with Chaliapin...
...widow of an Italian noble, upon opera, jewels, acquaintances raffinées no end, upon a hulking lover she kept all unfortunately. In Maple Valley, she is welcomed for having been baptized there. Ella Poore was her Main Street name and since she left there have sprung up a new depot, waterworks, brick paving. The Countess is euchred, kettle-drummed, lap-suppered, picnicked, violently bored in every small-town way. Then up turns Gareth Johns, curly-headed, 17, and articulate. She enfolds him in her ample eroticism, he in his hunger for the horizon. Off they go together to the everlasting...
...certainly functioning while we are idling away the time. Altogether, 42 nominations go to Virginia for places that have wonderfully beautiful names, like Clover and Forest Depot and Richland and Ridgeway and Rural Retreat, all of which get Postmasters...
...Waverly is quite fortunate and gets a nomination, as also does Concord Depot. Dinwiddie gets a Postmaster; I know not why; Meadows of Dan also gets a Postmaster, and so do Prospect, Beaver Dam, Shipman, Bridgewater, Disputanta, Fincastle, Hilton Village, and last but not least is Saltville...