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...Norway of Midshipman Kenneth Barr was discovered when a Norwegian girl came aboard tor a tea dance and said he was expecting her. Soon found was a Norwegian chauffeur who said that Midshipman Barr had dismissed him near Lake Gjersjoeen, ten miles from Oslo, remarking, "I am going to picnic in the woods." All Norwegian radio stations then inquired for Midshipman Barr and helpful Norwegians responded by deluging the U. S. Consulate at Oslo with telegrams, notes and post cards conjecturing where he might be. Ultimately Picnicker Barr was arrested by Swedish frontier guards as he tried to leave Norway...
...Philadelphia last Decoration Day, 400 American Legionaries, their wives and children held a grand picnic. Twenty of the women pitched in to serve luncheon. Of the picnickers 66 contracted typhoid fever. Last week the fifth victim died. And last week examination by Philadelphia Health Department bacteriologists of the stools of the 20 women who had served so helpfully at the picnic demonstrated that two of them were carriers of typhoid fever. Because they were not among Philadelphia's 30 labeled carriers and did not endanger the lives of relatives and friends out of wanton carelessness, names of the tainted...
...Because Secretary Louis McHenry Howe lay seriously ill of bronchial and heart trouble in the White House, the Roosevelts quietly celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on St. Patrick's Day with a family picnic on the Maryland side of the Potomac. Mrs. Roosevelt announced that from now on she is going to live a "quiet life...
...went by at Flemington without both the prosecution and the defense being pestered by the mentally infirm. Hag after hag claimed she knew the secret of how the kidnaper perpetrated his crime. Copies of the ransom notes were made to substantiate each individual's "confession." Yet what right have picnic parties to break up solemn proceedings? Why should the insane get away with contempt of court? Executions are officially witnessed, yet barred to the public. Why should murder trials be open to the public--when the "public" which swarms to the kill is mainly lunatics and monomaniacs...
...show that by spending this money to aid distressed agriculture and the unemployed we could at the same time do something for the ducks. Our endowment of wild life resources is the bowlegged girl of the village. Every one sympathizes with her but never asks her to the picnic...