Word: trails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franconia Notch, N. H.; fair snow with three inches powder, over ten to seventeen inch base on the trail...
...night 10 years ago a stranger ambled into the Chelsea, Okla. station of the Frisco Line to file a telegram. He noticed a guitar resting beside the telegraph operator, a fellow named Autry, and requested They Plowed the Old Trail Under. Autry sang it, whereupon the stranger took the guitar and sang Casey Jones. The stranger chatted a while, told Autry his voice might get him somewhere some day, handed him a stick of chewing gum, and left his telegram. It was signed "Will Rogers...
George Washington Ogden is an oldtime newspaperman (born 1871) who has written westerns (Whiskey Trail, Windy Range, etc.) and whose verse was once reprinted in the old Literary Digest. There Were No Heroes, which he subtitles "A Personal Record of a Man's Beginning," is unlike anything he ever tried before. It is too bad that he did not turn his hand to such serious writing decades...
Since snow conditions on the Sherburne trail are only fair, the annual Harvard race, which was to have been held this week-end, has been called off for the present and may be held at a later date...
...lifeboats went all the crew (there were no passengers) except twelve scuttlers, ten firers. Captain Daehne stayed aboard to oversee their job. Down below, the scuttlers opened all sea cocks. Through the ship raced the firers, smashing skylights, emptying drums of benzine and petrol, to make an unbroken trail past heaps of oil-soaked waste to the ship's fuel tanks. When all was ready, Very signal pistols and long matches were used to touch off the fire everywhere at once. Within an hour of ordering his ship's destruction, Captain Daehne slid last down a rope into...