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...peddle through muddy streets for as much as $1.50 per gal. "Caramba!" would cry astonished Juan Miguel Aguirre if he could return to San Francisco next week to see one of the world's great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white...
...send men for the Confederate army. He listed many a fiddle-tune, quilt pattern,, mountain and Negro superstition, collected some Brer Rabbit tales not to be found in Joel Chandler Harris. He heard of a legendary Jim. "the stud nigger," whose boss hired out his services to a far-away plantation. When Jim learned that he would have to travel 500 miles each way, that there were 200 girls on the other plantation, he said: "Well, boss, I'll go. But it seems a mighty fur piece for just a few days' work." Carmer calls Mobile "loveliest ... gayest...
...that his head wagged this way and that, that he flourished his bow or held it pinched. The newshawks, in evening dress for the occasion, agreed to behave. But afterward they reported that Einstein is a capable fiddler, that he became so absorbed in the music that with a far-away look he was still plucking at the strings when the performance was all over. Present were 264 New York notables who paid $25 apiece for their seats. Fiddler Einstein earned $6,600 for his Berlin friends...
...archconservatism of the Arizona Press, due to mining influence, has left the field open to outside papers like the Examiner and even the far-away Denver Post. Actually it was competition with the Post, whose makeup it copies in rural editions, that lay behind the Examiner's splash, which it did not print at all in its home editions...
Evidently you are not informed that the present representative of the U. S. in that far-away land, Mr. Addlison E. Southard, entered in the same manner...