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Representative McFadden was rather hotly hissed by his fellow-townsmen. Last week, observers said that the episode had redounded greatly to Mr. McFadden's discredit and might well result in another lady member of Congress...
...ensuing skirmish, the four townsmen were trapped by a flanking force and John Hicks, with two of his comrades, was slain...
...Willis blustered: "Personally, I have no fear of the results." He knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement that is hourly gaining force throughout...
...Ismet's train reached the end of the new line last week, he descended to the platform, stern and imposing, to accept without moving a muscle of his face the homage of some thousands of rural townsmen. They, well-meaning, slaughtered many sheep, and one gangling camel in honor of the new railway and Ismet Pasha. To make the celebration more costly, bright shawls and valuable rugs were dipped in blood from the slaughtered animals, then burned...
...English, Ind., frenzied neighbors killed "mad" dogs, then ruefully discovered that the dogs had been lapping at the English garbage pails. The pails contained the townsmen's weekly residue of moonshine mash, and the dogs had been only drunk...