Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first of these monuments would become apparent so soon as the Presidential train reached the rails of the Florida East Coast R. R. and started passing through resorts, glistening with opulence, which Henry M. Flagler's railroad and hotels first started booming...
Florida businessmen privately estimated that the Presidential passage through their realty would nearly equal, in publicity, the cost of the 1926 hurricane. A sumptuous motorcade stood ready to show the President the boulevards, beaches and buildings of Miami and Coral Gables when his train stops there for an hour Saturday. But the President's attention is likely to be occupied not by realty but by the Flagler genius when, reaching Everglade station south of Miami, the train starts out on a long point to a station called Jewfish. There the railway crosses an inlet to Key Largo and begins...
...Keys. Key Largo, Plantation, the Matecumbes, Indian Key, Long Key, Grassy Key, Fat Deer, Key Vaca, Pigeon, Knight's, Little Duck, Big Pine Key, Cudjoe, the Saddle-bunch Keys, Big Coppitt, Boca Chica?in less than three hours the train clicks off the distance over bridges, causeways and the lowlying limestone reefs which Henry M. Flagler's engineer, the late Joseph Carroll Meredith, utilized as ties for the Oversea Extension. In places, Gulf currents 30 feet deep swing eastward under the trestles...
...blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating cab 2.00 Milk, wagon to 5th Ave. and 43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding habit, borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake) 5.00 Aspirin .15 Return train to Bratteboro. Vt., 3.47 Handear to Northfield, Mass. 19.62 Reputation lost in Northfield. Mass. 02 Heart balm again 25.00 Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care 3.00 The rest...
...trellises of suffering and achievement. He worked in the fields of the great farm, fell in love with Dora Tarkington, filled his mind with knowledge. Then a day came when, with Dora and his mother he rode to the station, carrying a shoe box full of sandwiches. When the train came in, David said goodby and boarded it for Springfield. There he would work, study and, afterward, practice law. On that day the story ends...