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...them, sometimes it veered against them, drove the flames across firebreaks to lick at the nearest roofs. The gas mains burst in Mill Valley. The water supply dribbled out. Two pump engines were hustled to Cascade Canyon to drain an abandoned reservoir. Refugees clogged the roads. Red Cross stations sprang up to treat the injured, house the homeless...
...night last week Lieut. Governor Kinne was driving his automobile along the dark roads from Lewiston to Orofino. Before him, as the car dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five...
When the S. S. Leviathan docked last week the inspectors, bristling with success, sprang at 32 trunks belonging to four women, Mrs. Anna Loeb (mother of Murderer Richard Loeb) and three relatives. The Loeb ladies declared only $800 worth of foreign purchases. The Inspectors found enough frocks, gowns, fur coats and jewelry to require duties and penalties...
...that instant shadowy figures sprang from the shrubbery. Two grenades hurtled through the air, fell beside the car. When they did not explode, a fusillade of shots rang out. Lieut. Gudinas, the aide, fell, mortally wounded as he shielded Professor Valdemaras with his own body. The small grandnephew was shot in the stomach. A passing young girl was hit in the leg. "Furthermore," wired an agitated Lithuanian correspondent, "one of the bullets penetrated Mme. Valdemaras' clock...
...pointed out that the idea of model assemblies is not new. Right after the conclusion of the World War many such groups sprang up. Students at London, Paris, and many smaller places were organized into international assemblies...