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...long been a Gordian knot for which the dull wits of the responsible officials have been no cleaving sword. But a simple man and true, an honest yardcop, the flower of Colonel Apted's force, could shear the tangled threads. He would divert traffic from Widener's airy porch, the prime lurking lair of homicidal chauffeurs. To do this he would open the at present unused gate by Harvard Hall, where trucks bearing heavy burdens would be admitted, and at which the carriers of light parcels, laundrymen and such, would be denied the luxury of motor transportation. This would shunt...
...famed Bohemian Club. His passion play Nazareth was the first produced in the U. S. (1901), is revived every third year at Santa Clara, Calif. Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 91, famed oldtime foe of Tammany, of injuries suffered when he, a somnambulist, fell from the porch roof of his home in Ventnor, N. J. In 1892, as pastor of Manhattan's socialite Madison Square Presbyterian Church, bushy-bearded, scholarly Dr. Parkhurst amazed his congregation by a sermon in which he charged that gambling and prostitution were protected by New York's police. He hotly described...
...gentleman. That wasn't much help, but I can't do any more. Drink what you can hold, boy, cast up your accounts regularly, pick your friends slowly, and devote a little time to study. That'll carry through." His son didn't answer, but started across the porch at the whitecaps. He was thinking that the new baby of the squatters up the woods showed signs of cretinism * * * Even Dean Briggs, reflected the Vagabond, said that freshmen were all alike. And he remembered the fable of the seven blind...
...Oklahoma City, rich Oilman Charles F. Urschel, whom gunmen snatched from a family card game on his own front porch, turned up after nine days captivity. His family admittedly paid ransom, kept silence for eight hours to let the kidnappers get away...
...Oklahoma City, Oilmen Charles F. Urschel and Walter R. Jarrett were playing bridge on a porch with their wives when two black-haired bandits sneaked up with a machine gun. "Don't move or well blow your heads off!" cried one. "Which is Urschel?" No one answered. "Well, come along, we'll take both of you," he said. An hour later the kidnappers dumped Jarrett, unscathed, out of their car ten miles from town, sped away with Urschel. Mrs. Urschel, rich widow of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of oil wildcatters" whose fortune once exceeded...