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...crop of central Florida in 1894, Tuttle picked a bouquet of orange blossoms untouched by the frost and sent it to Financier Henry Flagler as proof that South Florida was worth a look. Flagler, who was already building up St. Augustine, came, saw and was conquered; he built a railway to Miami and beyond, all the way to Key West.* During World War I, the Government put a number of training camps in Florida, and after the war ended, some of the doughboys returned. The first great Florida land boom was under...
...Florida East Coast Railway stretched some 500 miles from Jacksonville to the Keys, but the 150-mile link between Miami and Key West was Flagler's crowning achievement. Begun in 1905, it was an engineering marvel of bridges and viaducts, with 80 miles of track built over water and the longest of the bridges spanning seven miles. A Labor Day hurricane in 1935 destroyed the tracks on the Keys, but the roadbed was widened and opened as a highway...
...that portrait could not be moved and there was not another one around. The official portrait was about all that was left of the Coolidge days, save a couple of pieces of undistinguished cherry bedroom furniture and an old Pullman menu from a trip on the Chicago & North Western Railway listing two broiled lamb chops at 80?, Coolidge's kind of fare. The White House curator sent off to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., for another portrait of Coolidge. It was painted by Frank O. Salisbury in 1934, and a few of the wrinkles and the drooping...
Each of the ward conventions was filled, many people attracted by mass mailed post cards announcing the Union Railway intended to pack the meetings. Pamphlets were distributed with the slogan "UNION RAILWAY VS. THE PEOPLE." Actually, Charles Railroad interests allied with no-license (prohibitionists) forces stacked each of the ward conventions, accepting or rejecting candidates on the basis of their stands for the railroad and against liquor...
...following week, the election--in which 5000 voters went to the polls--ended up much the same way. Those candidates affiliated with the Charles River Railway captured seats from all but wards two and three, and Alderman Chapman, the lone dissenter on the vote to grant C.R.R. the extension permit lost his chair. The outcome of the liquor license question was unclear--the tally on the referendum changed with each recount--but five aldermen elected were considered anti-license. "Cambridge is to be given prophibition by the railroad, this is the result and the only result of last Tuesday...