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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...signed) E. D. STANDIFORD "President of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company" Sequel to the above: To this day, 60 odd years later, Danville passengers must hire taxis and drive three miles to catch an L. & N. train for east or west. To assuage their grief, awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers...
...Tavatui on the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains, 1,000 mi. east of little Fraser, the station master decided it was all right to switch a freight train on to the through track, if he closed the semaphore signal. In the opposite direction a local passenger train roared into view. The engineer in the cab ran through the semaphore, head on into the freight train. Result: 33 dead, 68 injured. Last week in nearby Sverdlovsk a Red Court sentenced engineer and station master to be shot dead. Five others of the train and station crews got prison terms...
Istanbul, Turkey, March 28--Samuel Insull, flitting in phantom fashion about the labyrinthine waterways of the Near East, was reported proceeding through the Dardanelles today, bound for the Black...
...birthplaces of native born of native parentage throws an interesting light on the attendance of the Exposition. The East North Central census section (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin) produced 41 per cent, the Middle Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania) sent 17 per cent, as did the West North Central (Iowa, Montana, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas). Other districts sent distinctly smaller proportions, so it would seem that the attendance varied almost directly with the proximity of the birthplace to Chicago...
...editors solved the problem; and so the Harvard Herald will announce in its first issue a magnificent and stupendous contest. To the member of the College who submits to the Herald the best 1000000000 word explanation of the "Wherefore and Why of Old Faithful, the Geyser at the East End of Wigglesworth Hall," will be given a five hundred thousand dollar prize...