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...shade of a murdered Indian returns to lift tables, answer questions by raps. Ben Sexton, a mean skeptic, tries to hold the spirit down by wrestling the table. He gets laid out good & proper...
...church funds. The trouble was over $110. That was the accumulated interest on a fund which one of Miss Smith's relatives long ago set up for the care of the church fence. Rector Livingston had put the money into the general church fund, pointing out that the sexton took care of the fence anyway. Miss Julia Smith thought otherwise...
...Paso, Tex. Harry L. Sexton, onetime confidential secretary to Vice President Garner, was killed in a plane which crashed and burned...
...Torrance is a "natural" athletic prodigy. At the Southern A. A. U. meet last year he picked up the 56-lb. weight, asked the meet director how to throw the thing, stepped into the circle and slung it 32 ft., a meet record, his first try. Prophetically said Leo Sexton, U. S. Olympic shot putter: "Wait until he learns how to put that ball. As soon as he gets the knack of letting the shot go, he'll break every record in the book...
...twilight in St. Louis last week Hugh Sexton, 29-year-old aviation editor of the Chicago Tribune, climbed into a ten-passenger American Airways plane, started back to his job. For fellow passengers he had a Manhattan advertising man and an Ohio sanitary engineer. Pilot Walter Hallgren had made the St. Louis-Chicago run for six years and was approaching his millionth flight mile. After the plane had bored 100 mi. into Illinois, thick, wet snow began to envelop it. The Chicago radio operator heard its pilot report: "Visibility one-eighth mile, ceiling 500 ft., ice forming on wings...