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Election Day. From New York to San Diego volunteer baby-sitters offered their services to voting mothers. Thousands in St. Louis turned on their porch lights as dusk fell to remind the laggards of their duty...
...younger; his generation had something to revolt against, the new generations have only anarchy. He spends his summers on a farm in New Hampshire, inherited from his mother. There are over 300 acres of woodland, which he has left strictly alone. On a long screened-in porch facing the mountains of the Sandwich Range, he and Mrs. Cummings take their meals. There is no electricity, and at night reading is done by kerosene lamplight. For trips to the village he drives a 1929 Ford sedan, upholstered and roomy as an old-fashioned Pullman, that rides high over the rutted dirt...
...North Carolina traditionally belonged to the Phi Society, while those from other states joined the Eu. Rivalry between these two organizations was as fierce as any inter-collegiate rivalries of today. Woodrow Wilson, who studied at Davidson during the year 1873-74, made his first public address from the porch of the Eu Club...
...still dirty, being displaced from good seats in motor caravans by local dignitaries, being called away from meals just as the main course is being served. "Nevertheless," he says, "it has been a fascinating experience, even though I sometimes think longingly of the days when McKinley campaigned from his porch...
Jacobs began shooting. He put two bullets in Hopkins, who leaped out, cried "Please help me!" staggered up on a nearby porch and fell dead. He shot a hole through McCullaugh's right ear. He fired fruitlessly at the women. Green ran. Jacobs leaped out, dropped the gun and sprinted wildly down the street. The police found him only half an hour later, hiding on a nearby roof. He confessed, ratted on his pal Green and cried dramatically: "If you've got me, give it to me. I don't care if I burn anyhow." The cops...