Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prosecution Lawyer Clyde R. Hoey, brother-in-law of North Carolina's Governor Oliver Max Gardner and perfect likeness of Author Train's famed "Mr. Tutt," called Defendant Fred Erwin Beal a coward. (Defendant Beal had testified that he was lying on the floor of the union shack when Chief Aderholt was shot...
More than 60 years ago a curiosity-consumed railroad newsboy, puttering with chemicals in a baggage car, set the car on fire. At the next station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva...
...team will run through a limbering up practice tomorrow morning leaving here on a special train in the afternoon...
Eager California newsgatherers boarded a train at Santa Barbara last week and rudely interrupted Berlin's crop-headed, saber-scarred Mayor Gustav Boess in a pinochle game...
...want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist (Lee Patrick), he weds the blonde chit whom he first met on the train (Linda Watkins...