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Extra alert were the Coast Guard outside of New York Harbor one night last week. They had been tipped off that a big load of Canadian liquor was to be smuggled in. When a passing steamer signalled that she was the Texas Ranger, inbound from Galveston, they did not inquire further. They knew the Texas Ranger was about due, and coastwise vessels of U. S. registry do not have to touch at Quarantine...
...tires, $10,000,000 worth of glass, $4,800,000 worth of paint and lacquer, $4,600,000 worth of grey iron, $4,000,000 worth of lumber. The Ford production will benefit transportation companies by some $100,000,000 to pay for freight carried by 236,000 inbound and 228,000 outbound cars...
...were prone to talk less loudly. In many offices there is a rule that to discuss the condition of a house or bank with anyone is an offense which may result in dismissal. Yet few clerks or bank presidents are able to contain themselves when they hear rumors of inbound catastrophe...
...Police boats and a tug swarmed around. Ropes and advice were thrown to the swimming bull, who submerged when capture seemed near, to come up snorting, blowing and swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island. To get the animal into...
First and only Captain of the Ambrose is squint-eyed Gustav A. Lange, who has been at sea from cabin boy to master, for 43 years. Said he in German-American gutturals last week: "Vell, it brings home a mile closer to these inbound ships now ve are moved...