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Mariposa, after California's Mariposa County, locale of Forty-niners' gold scrambles, was the name given first of three liners ordered by Matson Navigation Co. from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. at Quincy, Mass. Christened with a bottle of water from Sydney Harbor, Australia, terminus of her run from San Francisco, the Mariposa was launched by Mrs. Wallace Alexander, wife of Matson Line's vice president...
...ladies. While striking telephone operators in the centre of Barcelona flung brickbats and shrilled curses at their scab sisters in the central offices, Barcelona's Civil Governor decided that the time was ripe to raid some of the music halls on the Paralelo, Barcelona's trolley terminus and rowdiest thoroughfare, at the foot of towering Montjuich. Here, he had been informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue helmets, swooped down on the Moulin Rouge and the Royal Concert.* There...
...community. It may also bring prosperity by carrying to market what the community produces. So in 1912 the citizens of Forgan, at the entrance of the wheat-rich Oklahoma Panhandle, were glad when the Wichita Falls & Northwestern (now part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas) chose their town for a terminus.- And the folk of Beaver, the county seat seven miles to the south, were chagrined because railroadless Beaver was outdone. They pooled their wheat receipts, hired a teamster at $4 a day, graded the land by eye, started a railroad to Forgan. Before half of the seven miles was finished...
...profits were hard to get, and in 1918 Carl J. Turpin of Oklahoma City, an ex-railroader, was called in as general manager. He soon had things shipshape along the seven-mile right-of-way, cheerfully worked without salary. In 1924 the road was extended 20 mi. westward, its terminus called "Turpin." Two years later the B. M. & E. went farther west to Hooker where it crossed the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific tracks, then on to Hough. This gave it 65 mi. of track. Last year it pressed on another 40 mi. to reach the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe tracks...
Among cities Vladivostok is "The Last Place On Earth." Recently to this extreme terminus of Russian railways, to this jumping off place for Kamchatka (if one must jump off-see p. 32) came breezy Henry Wales, of the Chicago Tribune. He reported...