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...statement that the city had one of the most peaceful twenty-four hours in its history. No suicides or automobiles fatalities, nor any injuries by knife or gun were reported from Saturday evening until Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately this record was marred when a woman in Brooklyn stopped a stray bullet, the police shamefacedly admit...
...woman and two men, all of them in well-padded containers, have gone over Niagara Falls and come up alive.* All of them went over the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side. No man ever lived through a ride over the rock-bottomed American Falls. Yet last week a stray police dog blundered over the American side and came out to shake himself on the bank...
...brought with it many changes. The Vagabond had heard from stray sources that Russia too has changed. Something about the Czar's fall and a communistic government. This was more than he had bargained for; he would have to find out about it all. Today at ten, therefore, he goes to Boylston to hear a lecture about post war Russia and the Soviets by Professor Karpovitch. It has come to the Vagabond's cars that the lecturer was an engineer in Russia before 1917, the Russia which the Vagabond knew so well, and also a minister in the Kerensky government...
...Major Charles A. French were dropping explosive "eggs" into the water. Once when Major French pulled the release lever, no bomb left the ship; he yanked again. Then the officers looked overside, were horrified to see the last two bombs swinging beneath the fuselage, caught in a tangle of stray wires, banging against one another. Instantly Pilot Breene zoomed his plane upward, looped, spun, dove, climbed again in an effort to shake free the bombs. They still swung, knocked, banged. Pilot Breene then sped the plane inland over a wooded swamp, signalled his companion to jump, followed him an instant...
...officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks, the city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Col. Frederic C. Bradman of the Marines ordered the patrols to shoot all stray dogs on sight (fear of rabies) and anyone caught looting. The crack of a sentry's rifle tumbled one man like a jackrabbit; in his pockets were seven $1,000 bills, dug from the shell of one of Ma nagua's banks. Four other persons, thirst-crazed, were...