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...fetched but equally fabulous was his campaigning last week when with the same urge that drove Alf Landon to invade New Deal California, the President took a swing through anti-New Deal New England. One fair autumn morning he woke up aboard his special train in Providence, and began greeting people: Mrs. Roosevelt who had arrived before him, Rhode Island's Governor Green and a fine figure of a man in a cutaway and topper...
...Beaumont, Tex. Trainer Lee Roberta of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus forgot to speak gently to Trilby, a one-eyed elephant, when awakening her. Trilby woke up irritably, grabbed him in her trunk, whacked him against a wall, stomped him to death. Next day circus officials reported that Trilby was in constant tears...
Year ago last May Manila's torpid police suddenly woke up to the fact that a revolt was brewing. Before they could do anything Manila's communications with the rest of Luzon were cut. For two days there was fighting. Sixty people were killed before a radical group, the Sakdalistas, whose leader Benigno Ramos directed the uprising from his exile in Tokyo, was finally suppressed. Underfed workers and poverty-stricken tenant farmers continued to listen eagerly to Sakdalista and Communist agitators. Recently, however, the signs of discontent seemed to have ebbed...
...climbed a telegraph pole, ran a foot race with the police, jumped off the dock, and woke up aboard a river boat 100 miles from home...
...Henson quit his clerkship at the Customs House. An unsung U. S. hero, Henson made eight trips to the Arctic with the late Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary. On April 6, 1909 he and Explorer Peary fell asleep after warming their frozen feet on each other's stomachs, woke to find they had slumbered over the North Pole. Elated, Negro Henson led three Eskimos in three whooping cheers while Explorer Peary planted the U. S. flag. Reflected he: "That was the happiest day of my life." Lincoln's Mayor Charles W. Bryan, thrice (1923-25, 1931-35) Governor...