Word: leidlein
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...Michigan lawmakers who registered at the old Kerns one day last week. They were all in Lansing for a special session to re-count the votes for Secretary of State and Attorney General in the November elections. But nobody wanted to hurry. When on the first day Senator John Leidlein of Saginaw proposed a resolution of sympathy for a Senator who was ill his colleagues urged him to hold it over until next day. "I may be dead tomorrow," cried impatient Senator Leidlein...
Dead indeed next day lay not only State Senator Leidlein but State Representatives T. Henry Hewlett. Charles D. Parker, Vern Voorhees, John W. Goodwine, Don E. Sias, D. Knox Hanna and at least 24 other guests of the Kerns Hotel. Soon after fire had broken out in the night, the tindery old hotel was roaring from end to end like a well-kept fireplace. For 20 minutes women with hair and clothes ablaze ran screaming up & down the halls while men leaped out to die on frozen sidewalks or in the ice-coated little river to the rear. Then...
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