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...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...Lynn, Mass., a wild seal swam and dived in a stagnant inland pool beside a highway. Thousands of people paused to watch. Traffic on the highway came to a standstill. Unable to disperse the crowd the police, vexed, fetched a riot* gun, slaughtered the seal...
...places but there were many negro families who were obliged to take refuge on the tops of the levees, where they are now living without proper shelter, sanitation, drinking water, and other necessities of life. The same situation applies to many other places along the Mississippi, and as far inland as fifty miles from...
Last week the Panama Canal, inland waterway of mighty ships, might well have given a watery chuckle and gurgle; for some profound reason all U. S. officialdom seemed suddenly anxious to view...
...Comer had been everything an Alabaman should have been-Civil War cadet, large-scale farmer, large investor in manufactories, wholesale merchant, citizen with public spirit enough to enter politics and fight for reforms himself. Railway rates had been the issue of his political career. Water-transportation for inland Alabama industry was the end to which he now gave his name and money, until the end was won. Not for a "handsome profit" Alabamans said, had the Hon. Mr. Comer and Publisher Thompson used the Age-Herald, but as an instrument to develop their state which, when developed, may well...