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Visitors to Magnolia Cemetery in Spartanburg, S. C., can read on a gravestone: In memory of William Walker, A.S.H. Died Sept. 24, 1875, in the 67th year of his age. He was a devoted Husband and kind Father. A consistent Baptist 47 yrs. Taught music 45 yrs. The Author of 4 Books of sacred music. He rests from his labors. He died in the triumphs of faith. Sing praises unto the Lord...
...Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh...
People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...
Thereupon the 150 Congressmen and their wives trooped to the Magnolia Gardens to see the azaleas. The azaleas were not out, however...
...resemblance to the name of any person, living or dead, is to be regarded as purely coincidental. LOWELLA SALTONPUSS, of Ratcliff Part taken by Lowella Saltonstall FOUFOU SEARS, of Magnolia-by-the-Sea Aunt to Lowella. . . . . . . . . Part taken by foufou Sears, "Mrs. Oklahoma" 1897, Barnum & Bailey Ringling Brothers' Elephant-Skinned Lady 1914 SNUFFY SULLIVAN, of Chelsea-by-the Smell. . . . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by Eustaee P. McGargle A YARD COP . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a Yard Cop PROFESSOR FREEZY MERMAN, of Harvard, Uncle to Lowella . . . . . Part taken by himself A SECTION MAN . . . . . . . . . . Part taken by a local WPA worker 17 SMALL MEMBERS...