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...morning three weeks ago, milk wagon drivers and early risers in Portland, Ore. saw a huge dark marine shape diving about in Columbia Slough, adjacent to the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. "Sportsmen" started shooting at it until Governor Julius L. Meier issued orders against it. By the end of a week the creature had been identified as a small killer whale which had wandered 100 mi. up from the sea. Press & populace named it Ethelbert. The Oregon Humane Society decided Ethelbert would never get back to sea, should be painlessly destroyed by dynamite. Before the dynamiting could...
...operation before he told the country his plan. When he secured this shortly after midnight Tuesday, the National Credit Corp. had assumed definite form and the public was appraised of a 500-million-dollar fund (later enlarged to a billion) to function as a stepping stone between the slough of the ordinary bank and the lofty security of the Federal Reserve. National Credit Corp. was quickly formed under the laws of Delaware with a capital structure of twelve shares of $100 par value stock. Twelve men were to direct it, one from each of the Federal Reserve Districts. Each would...
...performed this trick twice. Back somewhere in the go's the best my time-dimmed memory will do, the Northern Pacific's crack limited of that bygone period moved westward out of Fargo early one morning. A mile west from town was the Big Slough across which ran an earthen fill. As the train reached this causeway a tornado struck it and turned every Pullman of the train on its side. But in this case no one was hurt...
...favorite hymn was "Weary of earth and laden with my sin." At the tender age of eight he hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide. He was restrained from any such self violence, however, by the desire to know more mathematics. Be emerged from this adolescent slough of despond to enjoy a happy and fruitful manhood. In "The Conquest of Happiness" Mr. Russell lays down his method in achieving this amazing metamorphosis with the hope that his experiences may be of some use to the world at large...
...city of Chicago sinks deeper and deeper into the slough of indebtedness: meanwhile the royal vultures of England hover overhead, circling nearer and nearer, patiently waiting for her last gasping struggles...