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...lead; but as time wore on, Hindenburg grew stronger and stronger. Marx captured Berlin by a huge majority. At Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Cassel, Heidelberg, Marx scored slight victories over the Monarchists; but the Field Marshal came back strong in Munich, Stettin, Leipzig, Halle, "the reddest town in Germany," Frankfort, Coburg, home of deposed monarchs. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was declared elected President of the German Republic. Returns...
According to a despatch from West Frankfort, Ill., the motive power of The West Frankfort American's press ceased to function last week. Editor Byron Elkins cogitated. He stepped into the street, backed "a small automobile" into his shop, jacked up the wheels, attached a belt, ran off his editions "at the rate of 30 miles an hour." He alleged that he got "1,500 papers to a gallon of gasoline...
...skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most fiercely through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing Griffin and razing half of Princeton. Apparently this was done by one tornado or a recurrent one, because...
...German cruiser Frankfort was also sunk under similar conditions. She had light armor, thin decks, lay at anchor undefended and unrepaired during a seven-and-a-half-hours' bombardment in fine weather, with airplanes flying not over 2,000 feet in altitude...
Unlike the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, who was a Rhinelander, this indus- trial potentate hails from Frankfort, home of the Rothschilds. Unlike the dead "King of Coke," the "King of the Borse" is a Jew; his great predecessor in wealth was a Lutheran. Unlike the bluff, hard, scowling Stinnes, the Jew is suave, handsome, crafty. Unlike the once omnipotent Ruhr industrialist, who inherited his father's fortune, the newcomer began with the modest sum of 15,000 marks and made his enormous fortune unaided. But the latter aims to be like Stinnes; he is copying the methods of Stinnes...