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...Discoverer Martin Alfonso de Sousa mistook an arm of the Atlantic for a river, christened it seasonably the "River of January" (Rio de Janeiro...
Flying a 90 h. p. Gipsy-Moth which had seen considerable taxi-service in England, Miss Johnson covered more than half the 11,500-mi. route well ahead of Hinkler's schedule before mishap overtook her at Rangoon. Burma. There she mistook the landing field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump...
...Later they reported to the adjutant: "'We've come to report, sir, that we are very sorry but we've shot our company sergeant-major.' The adjutant said: 'Good heavens how did that happen?' They answered: 'It was an accident, sir . . . we mistook him for our platoon sergeant.' So they were both shot by a firing squad of their own company." In Béthune Graves saw queues of 150 men lined up before the army brothel. "Each woman served nearly a battalion of men every week for as long...
...Chicago last fortnight, some 30 citizens at late hours mistook the city's new yellow police cars for Yellow Taxicabs, were ridden to police stations...
...nomination easily seemed to be Mr. Coleman's. But in Washington Secretary of State Stimson and House Leader Tilson, ardent Yale men both, became befuddled on their political dates. They mistook the Minnesota primary for the election. They wrote letters to Minneapolis endorsing their good old friend "Pudge" Heffelfinger. The Stimson-Tilson letters failed by a wide margin to nominate Candidate Heffelfinger. But they did switch enough votes to him from Candidate Coleman to permit Candidate Nolan to capture the nomination and the election which followed last week. It was a sorry business?the Administration's man being accidentally stepped...