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...When Nicol asked to bury his wife he was flatly refused; he learned from strangers when the funeral service was to be held, and went to it unasked. After that he pushed his trucking business to the side and amended his damage suit, asking an additional $11,000 damages. His case was tried early last year...
When Jacob NicoL left his house one brisk September morning in 1946, the world looked bright. He was living comfortably in Roxton Pond, Que., had a profitable trucking business and a pretty dark-haired bride of two days. When he returned that night, his world had suddenly collapsed. His wife, Lucile, had left him to go back to her mother. Nicol knew what that meant. A Baptist, he had courted Lucile, a Roman Catholic, for seven years before eloping with her to Vermont. His widowed mother-in-law, Mme. Oviline Charrois Labrecque, made it clear that she was determined...
Change of Mind. Nervously Nicol hastened over to the College St. Eugene at Granby, where Mme. Labrecque worked as a cook. He asked to see Lucile, but the Abbe Lambert Collette turned him away, informing him that his marriage (by a Justice of the Peace) was not recognized by the Catholic Church. Later he was told that Lucile would ask for an annulment. But when Nicol saw her a week or so later in the Convent of the Grey Nuns at Chambly, she seemed to have changed her mind, asked him to arrange a reconciliation with her mother...
Soggy Pancakes. About 475 miles from Honolulu the Diesel gave up altogether, and at that point passengers discovered that one of the two lifeboats was loaded with cases of soda pop. The other had a hole in it. The passengers prayed; Captain E. M. Nicol radioed the U.S. Coast Guard. Almost five days later, the Pasado was towed into Honolulu. As she approached the harbor the stove blew up and splashed its soggy batch of pancakes against the overhead...
...schools, the farm credit bank, the country roads, and the rest of President Grau's program for raising rural standards of living and abating the tyranny of King Sugar, Nicolás said: "The work the politicians do for the campesino is tomorrow, and I have to live today. I have never received anything from Havana, and don't know of anyone who has. To the politicians the campesino is just a poor campesino, and they let it go at that...