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Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
Containing no dialog, with only 700 words of exposition by an unseen commentator, The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with lush, billowy grass, ends with the hulk of a dead tree surrounded by sun-baked desert. What happens between is shown in the arrival of the cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes...
Your article pictured Mr. Hoan as the highly educated savior of our city; whereas Mr. Shinners is a rough-and-tumble uneducated person who has nothing to recommend him except his hulk. Apparently some seventy or eighty thousand residents of Milwaukee think otherwise It must be a great source of satisfaction to you and to Mayor Hoan that after 20 years of service he was only able to be elected by the skin of his teeth...
Near Aurora, Ore., Farmhand Bert Jeskey heard a boar-like bellowing from the pasture soon after sunrise. Investigating, he found an eight-foot, 800-lb., slithering, legless hulk that reared up on flippers at sight of him and lunged six feet at a thrust. Since the Pudding River was a mile and a half away and the Pacific Ocean 135 miles away by water, Jeskey refused to believe that it was a sea lion until State Police arrived and told him it was famed Sergeant Finnegan of the Oregon State Police...
...Seattle workshop for all the world to see was trundled last week the hulk of the largest and most deadly airplane ever built in the U. S. Boeing Aircraft Co., after a year of secret construction, had finally assembled the giant four-motored bomber which it had manufactured for the U. S. Army under the contract name...