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Haskell Institute is one of many Federal schools maintained to elevate the aborigines. Founded 1884, it now gives academic courses and also business, domestic science, farming, dairying, gardening, masonry, carpentry, painting, blacksmithing, wagon-making, shoemaking, steam-fitting, printing, electricity and many more useful occupations. There are other Federal schools for Indians at Flandreau, S. Dak.; Pipestone, Minn.; Mt. Pleasant, Mich.; Fort Mojave, Ariz.; Carson, Nev.; Tomah, Wis.; Pierre, S. Dak.; and 210 others, including 77 boarding-schools...
...Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering...
Budapest, Hungary. "Wearied of aeroplaning, I took a wagon-lit (sleeping car) from Belgrade to Budapest-the city that has fallen heir to the gayety that was Vienna...
...then one spring afternoon in 1925, a detective calmly pushed past Mr. Stephenson's butler, found the Grand Dragon upstairs in a closet, took him away in a patrol wagon. An unsavory and sensational case. It was vaguely known that D. C. Stephenson had possessed some sort of political influence and the courtroom was filled. The judge, in his instructions to the jury, summed up the evidence somewhat as follows...
...Significance, People upon whom Barry Benefield laid strong hold last autumn with his little-heralded* novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, will be glad for the introduction to this volume, written by that primate of short-story critics, Mr. Edward J. O'Brien. It is like hearing that your favorite choir soloist has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. Says Mr. O'Brien, who reads bales of fiction per annum in professional detachment: "I suppose that those who are dumb have never had their feelings and experience interpreted so clearly before as ... by Barry Benefield." He gives thanks that...