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When Finis Bates arrived he took incognito to gave his friend's body from mob violence. For it was the body of his friend, John St. Helen, beyond peradventure?a hooplike scar over the eye, a neck cicatrice, an old leg fracture, a crooked thumb. And years before, near death in Texas, St. Helen had given Bates proof that only a friend, a lawyer never, could refuse to accept, proof that he was Lincoln's assassin...
...scheme. Taking a 50-cent piece out of his pocket, he said to his friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew a careful bead. Pow! went the gun. The coin, dented by dozens of buckshot, careered away. . . . With it went the end of Proprietor Beres' thumb...
...means of locomotion. They soon took up Stephenson's invention. In 1829 the Delaware & Hudson unsuccessfully tried out on its tracks a British steam locomotive, the "Stourbridge Lion." The next year, however, the Baltimore & Ohio proved that steam locomotion was practicable by the successful trip of the "Tom Thumb" at Baltimore. In 1831 the first U. S. steam locomotive, the "Best Friend of Charleston," was running on the first purely steam railway in America-the South Carolina Railroad - from Charleston to HamBurgh...
Sirs: Alice Foote MacDougall [on the LETTERS page of the Nov. 16 issue] expresses what to my mind is a defect in TIME-your style of English, "Came the President," "Sneezed the Senator" and all that sort of thing. It is grotesque, unattractive and as irritating as a sore thumb...
...Hallowell A Bull McGeehan r.t. r.t. Hallowell B Richard Stover 3d r.g. r.g. Hallowell C "Three Drinks" McCarthy c. c.Hallowell D Hadley l.g. l.g. Hallowell E Dwight l.t. l.t. Hallowell F Jones l.e. l.e. Hallowell G Gundelfinger q.b. q.b. Kebtsnick Heffelfinger l.h. l.h. Lowell Butterfinger r.h. r.h. Cabot Tom Thumb (Captain) f.b. f.b. God (acting Captain...