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...last week Dr. Baker, no longer a president, went back to Washington tired and alone. Passengers on a Pittsburgh-Washington bus saw him get aboard, a mild-faced, sandy-haired little man. Before the bus reached Washington, a 20-mi. trip, Dr. Baker alighted. Nearby was a funpark where W. &. J. students take their pleasure; some four or five miles away were the trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled...
...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...dramatic presentations by local Thespians. One booth was occupied by ladies of the W. C. T. U., another by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Little country boys of the 4-H Club were housed with the rabbits and poultry in the nearby "Highlands," a onetime funpark. Their eyes popped open a little wider at the exhibit of Milwaukee's ever-hopeful Pabst Corp.: an oldtime saloon, complete with brass rail, sawdust, shiny glassware...
...Coney Island funpark, Reporter Earl Sparling of the New York World-Telegram interviewed police officers, learned the following anent the habits of New Yorkers in dealing with lost children...
Mexico, concluded their summer jobs with International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. in Manhattan. They said they had lived on Staten Island within their $100-a-month salaries, entertained themselves modestly with occasional visits to cinemas and trips to Coney Island (funpark) until their last month in town. Then a mishap befell them, upset their finances. "We went to a place with some girls," said Fernando, "and ordered wine. We didn't think that would cost much. But the waiter brought champagne, and after that the girls ordered more. The evening cost us $95. American bandits are worse than the American...
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