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Life's a voyage that's homeward bound...
From Port Said correspondents cabled that the Italian transport Toscana had just passed homeward-bound "with 76 cases containing the bodies of embalmed Italian officers" and 1,000 sick and wounded...
Wending their way homeward yesterday after the tedium of an eleven o'clock government class, a group of Dunstermen were faced quite unexpectedly with living proof of the well known and well worn adage: "It's a wise child." On the corner, practically casting shadows across the monastic windows of Leverett's dining-room stood a young woman, of no apparent decision, waiting, perhaps, for a streetcar. Clutching her hand was what the biblical writer must have been thinking of when he referred to the little child that shall lead them. But the infant, vest-pocket edition though...
...fuselage of the plane lying like a disemboweled fish at the end of a quarter-mile trail of destruction. Scattered along this were shreds of cloth, lipsticks and compacts, magazines, pieces of sheet music, and, almost touching an oil-drenched cylinder torn from a motor, a copy of Look Homeward Angel which friends of the stewardess later said was hers. The cabin had not caught fire but was broken in two like an exploded firecracker. One wing was wrapped around the cabin; a landing wheel had crunched through. Some of the twelve bodies were scattered far from the wreck...
...Maguire declared: "There is no history of enteric at Lourdes, and no blame whatever attaches to the ship, which was given a clean bill of health before leaving Glasgow and before leaving Le Yerdon on the homeward journey. The whole thing boils down to the train journey from Lourdes to Le Yerdon. The germ may have been in the food or water taken on the way back at the wayside stations. ... I have no doubt about it that the cause of the infection is to be found on the train journey back from Lourdes...