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...ceremony. For on Nov. 16, 1776, Sergeant Molly's husband, a gunner, was wounded in the battle of Fort Washington and she served his gun until wounded* by three grapeshot. Until last week she rested in a snug grave on J. P. Morgan's estate at Highland Falls...
...down Dayton Street, provided they broke no windows, gave vent to no loud jeering at Bomber Zober. But although the sound of that human surf, following the chief's experiments with tear gas, had begun to be ominous, the crowd of some 3,000 persons that milled around at Highland and Dayton Avenues on the following afternoon paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching from the sidewalk. There was snow in the gutters. Small boys had a fine time pelting motorcycle policeman. Much merry horseplay, too, of holding back light cars that were trying...
...uncrowned 'King of Scotland' is a title that has been made for Lord Rosebery, whose country has had faith in him from the beginning. Mr. Gladstone was the only other man who could make so many Scotsmen take politics as if it were the Highland Fling. Once when Lord Rosebery was firing an Edinburgh audience to the delirium point, an old man in the hall shouted out: 'I dinna hear a word he says, but it's grand, it's grand...
Captain Ernest Ingram, famed divorced husband of the widow of Enrico Caruso, dashed out upon the floor and gave vent to a "Scotch Highland Charleston...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...