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...Vagabond well remembers his first uplifting introduction to old Horatio. It was "Bound to Rise" and it was behind a barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk...
...Western managers met to discuss the same proposition. Then a national meeting of railroad presidents was called at the Biltmore in Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally...
...kissing a white girl. As if the big lynching scene were insufficient drama for one evening. Playwright Theodore St. John sends his rural mobsters back to Adams' place a second time. They now want to settle with the city fellow for making up to Adams' wife. But stout Farmer Adams gets out his gun, settles his own particular triangle in his own particular way. Constructed and executed with sympathy and clarity, Adams' Wife is a play for you to see if you are interested in serious drama of the U. S. rural scene. Experience Unnecessary...
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Campbell collected volunteers. His stout friend Lee Guinness lent a yacht. Unfortunately the yacht had been sold, had to be returned to its purchaser by a certain date, so they had only one week actually on Cocos to find the treasure. But Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...