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...mining sites, of which no trace remains, can often be relocated by nearby thickets of ailanthus trees. A University of California scientist made the discovery and found the reason: in gold-rush days, Chinese cooks, laundrymen and coolies planted the ailanthus, known to them as "tree of heaven," to remind them of home...
...Meridian, Miss., Mayor Clint Vinson called on his fellow townsmen to pray for world peace every day at noon, ordered the city waterworks' whistle blown to remind them...
...same, 5? (it was an oil eater); to rent horse, 1?; hay, 5 mills; to rent glasses to look at wolf, 1?." After worrying the subject for a while, Casey discovered he had spent only $9.90. He polished off the matter by adding: "Wolfbane: 10?." To remind the accounting department of the terrible time it had with that itemized record, he continues to record Wolfbane as a necessary expense...
...press conference he referred to the "shocking fact" that Albania had declared war on the Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted: 'I have caught a bear...
...remind their members that golf is still being played in the ancient and honorable island of its birth, many a U.S. golf club last week posted wartime rules which govern play on British links. Samples...