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Grover Parks, a Cairo, N. Y. truckman, told the District Attorney that Gangster Diamond and his bodyguard, Jack Dalton, had stopped him as he was driving a truckload of hard cider along a deserted road fortnight ago. Because he would not tell where the cider (from which apple-jack is made) was going, Truckman Parks said the city hoodlums beat him, tied him to a tree, burned the soles of his feet with matches...
...almost any time." He promised that his agents would "stay within the law in enforcing the law," that his actions would be "as unobjectionable as possible" to Wet Manhattanites. To show him their mettle, his subordinates promptly pounced on a $30,000 Bronx cache of wines & beer, and a truckload of beer from New Jersey, chief Manhattan supply...
...hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic twelve times, who once flew from London to Paris to visit his veterinarian. Louis Ruhe, famed Manhattan animal importer, sent many a truckload of his wares including bears, warthogs, porcupines. When the Ruhe trucksters unloaded one slatted crate its inmate, a zebra, kicked, crashed its head against the slats, stared wildly, piteously about. The ever-watchful American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at once ordered the animal's release...
...politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress as England's "Dole" receivers. If left to ourselves I really believe we can work out these problems. But every worker amongst us is soon discouraged at seeing a truckload of five husky young men drive up to a homestead, two men reach for and pick perhaps one pepper, then the crew and their transportation hunt a tree for shade and well earned rest. I sincerely hope our Senator fails in his mission to get $50,000,000 to increase...
...Streets of Shanghai. Not in years has a truckload of U. S. Marines dashed so madly over rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...