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...last three generations?since the close of the Civil War?the Democratic party has named eleven men for the presidency. Six of them???Seymour. Greeley, Tilden, Cleveland, Parker, and Smith? were New Yorkers. Three of the six? Seymour, Tilden, and Smith?have been conspicuous members of Tammany Hall...
...sufficient answer is that early last week the Free State Government headed by President William Thomas Cosgrave jammed through Parliament the Public Safety Bill under which the seats of deputies who do not take the oath may be declared vacant and a by-election ordered to fill them???no candidate being allowed to run unless he pledges himself to take the oath if elected...
...gardener hobbled down to tell the delighted villagers that their squire-was out of jail. " 'E's a ticket o'-leave-man, still, though," said the gardener sadly, "the Marster, on account 'e is out o' jail two years early, 'as to put in 'is ticket to them??? every month!" Soon the villagers hung out flags and other tokens to honor open-handed Squire Bottomley...
Faithful, persistent David O'Shea of Skibbereen, Ireland, courted his fiancee for seven years with large and shiny gifts?40 of them???one for every Christmas, every Easter, every birthday. . . . Last week she, no mummy, broke off the engagement. All the gifts had been coffins. Mr. O'Shea wanted his 40 coffins back, so he sued her for breach of promise...
Were a bed slat yanked from under a napping Southern gentleman, he would be scarcely more annoyed than were Southern businessmen last week when Adair Realty & Trust Co. and Adair & Senter Co. (its construction subsidiary) went into bankruptcy in them???have been the warp of Atlanta's community fabric. George Atlanta...