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...Author DeLamater ticks off her items you begin to see what lies behind the demolition of the old schoolhouse, Dressmaker Willow's "handsome diploma from the Sims School of Dressmaking," the Young Men's Club ball in Firemen's Hall. Like its skeletal column, Personals comes to no conclusion, merely ends; but the author has padded the skeleton, dressed it up into an ingenious semblance of life...
...Providence spent last year on garbage & rubbish, $142,000 was for collection. $73,000 for incineration. Among the collection costs were $107,000 in wages, $6,263 for gasoline, $4,450 for feed and hay, $1,104 for wagon repairing and horseshoeing. Incineration wages (cranemen, firemen, hoppermen et al.) totalled...
...Princeton baseball team. Frank Bowman pitching: a game against Yale, 3-1, preceded by parades of Princeton alumni dressed as soldiers, sailors, legionaries, firemen, cowboys, policemen, toreadors, big game hunters...
...other 35 winners included stenographers, doctors, spinsters, a Finnish lumberjack, a Swiss nurseryman, an aerial photographer, a chauffeur, a welder, two dentists, two locomotive firemen...
...people three days before, turned their cloaks inside out to show the red lining, and grinned broadly. Workmen, feeling frightfully self important, chopped the crowns and shields off public buildings. In the midst of the celebration, some far-sighted official sent a fire engine to the Royal Palace. The firemen posted up handbills: PEOPLE OF MADRID RESPECT THIS BUILDING. IT IS YOURS...