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...girl about fourteen years old, daughter of the German professor at the University of Missouri, is walking one Spring day in the country outside the college town of Columbia. She approaches a railroad bridgehead. A Negro accosts her. He touches her. A car passes. He jumps back. The girl runs safely home to her parents...
...Cincinnati fourteen merchants were invited to a dinner by a commission merchant. When they assembled they discovered that their host was not the man from whom the invitation came-but another man who had disappeared owing them money 20 years ago. He made them a speech and then handed each an envelope containing principal and interest. In East Orange, N. J., license to drive an automobile was refused a man because he was 80 years...
...avalanche of bombs. Then south from Culebra came the Black fleet, driving the Blue fleet before it down the Pacific Coast. Panama Bay was swept of mines and the Blacks proceeded to the bombardment. Laying down a smoke screen, the Black fleet battered the land batteries with its fourteen-inch guns from a range of 30,000 yards-5,000 yards beyond the range of the forts. Then, drawing closer, it destroyed the Miraflores locks with its longest range guns, while 82 fourteen-inch guns concentrated on the forts. The destruction was complete. The Canal lay useless...
...full glory of ancient pomp Caliph Abdul Medjid crossed the Bosporus in a fourteen-oared caïque painted with a frieze of flowers and arabesques, its carved gilt prow sur- mounted by a silver image of a strange bird. The occasion was the first Selamlik-official service at a mosque-held in Scutari (opposite Constantinople) by the Caliph...
...Orleans Times-Picayune purchased 5,000 Bibles and in fourteen days disposed of them to its readers at 98 cents each...