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Given over nowadays to freight, the line runs an annual excursion for the Railroad Enthusiasts, organization of engine lovers that migrates from Boston and other New England points. Manager William B. McCleland and President Harry Pope are cordial hosts to the enthusiasts who know every inch of the line, look...
First "Off the Beaten Path" tour occurred on the Pennsylvania R. R. last July when 200 railroad addicts left Philadelphia to spend a day junketing over little-used side lines, seeing little-seen countryside. The passenger list jumped to 500 for the second excursion over another route in August. Since...
At 3 o'clock one morning last week in Manhattan, Negroes of all sizes, shapes and shades began gathering at an uptown pier on the Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, sang, strummed. By 6 o'clock there were 2,000 of them. Then up...
Seven hours later the excursion arrived at Kingston, N. Y. where Father Divine has lately acquired a "Promised Land," some 1,000 acres of farmland worth $160,000. Plan is to settle the Promised Land with Divine disciples who do not mind field work. While Kingstonites gawped, the Divine excursionists...
Since Franklin Roosevelt accepted renomination at Philadelphia two months ago, he has studiously refrained from all political activity. Nevertheless, he was at pains to give White House correspondents the slip one afternoon last week and, on pretext of visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20...