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Whether or not Governor William W. ("Plain Bill") Brandon of Alabama had "openers"* will never be known, for at that particular moment last week a deputy sheriff and raiding party rudely interrupted the gubernatorial poker game at McQueen's Camp near Magnolia Springs, Ala. Behind the Governor's chair the intruders found a half case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail...
Once there were steamboats on the Mississippi. Writers, thinking about those boats, fancy a certain gallantry, lost now, in the passengers who used them; the names of the boats, too, were beautiful and proud-The Anna Linington, Belle Zane, Magnolia, The Doubloon, The Fashion, The Great Republic. And it is true that people on shore could hear music blown over dark waters from the frail and lighted decks; niggers were fiddling there, gamblers in tall hats were playing faro, planters and belles and bankers swept down the river; they are gone. ' But who shall say that another age, because...
...these were mingled in a single rhapsody too great for the hand of mortal man, it would not equal the majesty and the splendor of old 'Suwanee River' played on the ukulele and hummed by the bright-eyed Florida maidens underneath the new magnolia trees, with the soothing odor gushing forth in a blazing November moonlight...
...cornered by reporters and asked what he had learned. But the Texan, lean of face was lean of words on the topic. He talked a little though. He recalled the day several summers before when he had drawn the first draft of the Leauge of Nations Covenant at Magnolia under the direction of his good friend Woodrow Wilson. He said that eventually the U.S would have to become an "associate member" of the Leauge and adhere to the World court. He hoped that the League question would never more be dragged through the arena of U.S politics. He said that...
...Swampscott, Mass., is expecting a lively summer once the President arrives there late in June: for the Mayflower will anchor at Marblehead, the Italian Ambassador will be situated at Beverly Farms, the German Ambassador at Magnolia, the Siamese legation at Bass Rocks and members of the British Embassy (Sir Esmé Howard will be abroad) at Manchester...