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Last week something happened. Every seventh person in Chamberlain became feverishly ill with typhoid. Six died. It was noised that an Indian boy who might have been a carrier of typhoid had swum in the freezing Missouri, contaminating the water. But the fact, and full explanation was, that the chlorinator which makes Missouri River potable for Chamberlain people broke down...
...woman who had once hardened his heart by betraying him, came searching for the secret of her mother. The Governor countermanded the order for Jeronimo's arrest, but it was Virginia who came to rescue him. Too late: he had been thrown into the crocodile-infested river, had swum miraculously across, vanished into the jungle where no man had been...
Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole...
...throats make better music than wet harps. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd of Wales found this out in the 6th century after his vocalists and harpists had swum a river. Thereat he proclaimed the supremacy of vocal music. Ever since that time Welshmen have congregated for Eisteddfodau (music festivals which are also contests...
...quiddity is the present Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly...