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Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island...
"ALL ABOARD !" cried a Great Northern conductor in St. Paul last week. "ALL ABOARD!" but none of the passengers knew their destination. Neither did the engineer until, steam-up, he opened sealed orders. The trip was the road's first "mystery excursion." For $2 the passengers were taken to...
Plump Queen Wilhelmina beamed, so did the plump Prince Consort. Comfortable Princess Juliana went out to inspect the new villages near Wieringen and thousands of Dutch trippers on hundreds of excursion boats yelled themselves hoarse. But at Volendam and Marken, those overexploited bits of quaintness, fishing boats were tied in...
Edward of Wales last week left London with high-heralded "secrecy" to visit the poor of his father's Kingdom. Previous royal visits to Britain's blighted areas have been enthusiastically praised by the Press on the theory that something important might come of them. Nothing did. Last...
(3 of 3) four members of his regular congregation attended. Even the organist, a cautious lady, stayed away. The white-haired rector stalked down the aisle crying dramatically, "I must have someone to help me!" A grey-haired male stranger volunteered. For evensong rubberneck wagons, taxis, excursion trains brought gaping...