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Rockwell Kent, artist, author (Voyaging, Wilderness???), inconvenienced by the discontinuance of railroad service at his Ausable Forks, N. Y. farm, wrote the Public Service Commission, saying that for five months no trains had run on the Ausable Forks-Plattsburg branch of the Delaware & Hudson R. R. Said he: "No application was ever made to the commission by the railroad for permission to discontinue service ... the severance of all railroad passenger communication with the main line will injuriously affect the growth of the communities surrounding it, the value of the real estate and the volume of local trade in the communities...
Five fortresses taken by storm; the defenders captured, fleeing or slain at their posts; the victors, such of them as still could fight, harrying the retreating army through the wilderness???such was the report received by the War Department from its proconsul, General Wood, at Manila...
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