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Last week Butte, like other U.S. communities, was busy about its bustling, wartime present. The mines were going at their fullest blast since the depression, Butte's 300 saloons still worked nightily to quench its thirst, the girls of its ' Venus Alley" still sat in front of their cribs as did those of oldtime Galena Street, its cuisine still ranged from fried bear steak to Cornish pastries, its inhabitants still quarreled in some 30 different languages and dialects. In war as in peace, Butte was still a mining camp, still one of the rowdiest towns...
...served as Admiral George Dewey's flagship. A year later she helped quench a flare-up in Panama. In 1905 special envoys of Russia and Japan met on board her during their peace conference at Portsmouth...
Scientists have lately announced a number of ingenious new contraptions to make sea water drinkable, but the war's ship wrecked have yet to quench their thirst with one of them. Last week two Navy chemists produced what looked like the first really practical solution. The Navy thought so well of their invention that it ran off a demonstration for newsmen...
...Government's plan will not only serve to please restless conchies. It is good economics as well: the old method of trekking across mountainous terrain to quench a blaze costs the Forest Service an average of $3,500 per fire; parachutists have been doing the job faster at $247 per fire...
When a candidate for Governor of Mississippi threatened to "lick Fred Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily Liar," Sullens Page-Oned: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with...