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...Viper...
...things done up in a bundle. She had walked 40 miles from her father's hill cabin to take the train for Happy, Ky., where she was going to be married. She had never seen a train before, and as the old-fashioned car bumped over the rails toward Viper, Ky., she sat trembling on the edge of her seat. The conductor shoved his red face around the edge of the door. "Vi-p-e-E-R," he shouted, "V-I-I-per." Lucy Napier jumped out of the window. Her skull was fractured, her neck broken...
Tennessee's Viper...
Having fashioned a maul to viscerate the vicious viper Evolution (TIME, Apr. 6), the state of Tennessee, last week, rolled up it's sleeves for a trial swing. The viper was placed in a convenient viscerating position by one George W. Rappleyea, business man, who complained that one J. T. Scopes, Science teacher in the Rhea High School (Dayton), had "taught Evolution." The charge particularized that Teacher...
...pounds of mutton and 14,000 wa- termelons-for 50,000 people at the farm of Dr. Arthur W. Nelson, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri. Some 50,000 people attended, and some went hungry. Mr. Davis was properly provisioned and then spoke: "Privilege creeps like a viper into the administrative chambers of your executive departments . . . Where can there be found such a chapter of shame in American history as that which contains the names of Fall, Edwin Denby, Harry M. Daugherty, Charles R. Forbes, Gaston B. Means, and a host of jackals who followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee...