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...mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled by the Revolutionary War, went there to cleanse and heal themselves. After the Revolution George Washington, whose wife spent considerable part of her wartime grass-widowhood at Virginia's warm springs, tried to buy Saratoga Springs, failed. Gideon Putnam bought 300 acres around the springs, built a hotel, made the place a health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered...
...shadow of the White House. Ordinarily given to concerts, conventions, exhibitions and beer parties, the Auditorium was bustling from top to basement with a religious conclave of 10,000 pious souls. In the big auditorium proper were folding chairs, loudspeakers and a banner, FOR JEHOVAH AND FOR GIDEON. Nearby was a temporary hospital staffed by voluntary nurses and a big rawboned country doctor. Through the three floors surged unpowdered women of all ages, many carrying children; coatless young men; sober old men; Scandinavian-looking farmers. They had come from as far away as California, most of them in automobiles...
...universal war will occur Judge Rutherford is vague. Few years ago he came a cropper by prophesying such a cataclysm for 1928. Two years later he deeded in perpetuity a ten-room house, two-car garage and a pair of automobiles in San Diego, Calif, to King David, Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, Samuel and other Biblical worthies, declaring he was confident they would shortly reappear on earth (TIME, March...
...CADAVER of GIDEON WYCK- Edited by Alexander Laing-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Even readers who pay little attention to publishers' blurbs may find their hackles rising in pleasant anticipation when they spy on The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck's jacket: WARNING People unable to sustain violent shock are advised that they read this book on their own responsibility. AND THE PUBLISHERS REALLY MEAN THIS. The book read, their hackles relapse in disappointment. Though Editor Laing's anonymous tale starts off promisingly enough on horrifying tiptoe, it soon bumps down to the flat policeman tread of any cheerful murder...
...last quarter of his trip (through a country of "real estate agents, Quaker Oats, electrocutions, cement roads, motorists and Gideon Bibles") Tschiffely spends few words. With pardonable pride, however, he tells how Mancha, his spirit still unbroken after some 10,000 mi., convinced a Governors Island sergeant he was unridable. After a Jimmy Walker reception in Manhattan, all three sailed back to the Argentine in grand style, Tschiffely to a triumphant homecoming, Mancha and Gato to a carefree old age on their native pampas...