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...meat hanging near by were said to be causing mildew in the hearse. Last December the municipal council voted overwhelmingly to move the hearse back to the parish house. Moreover, the fire engine and the corn-husking machine were to be kept at the parish house too. Forgiveness. Workmen began battering down a presbytery wall preparatory to building a new garage for these vehicles. Next day, Mayor Mamour and Robert Mocriau, the local garde champetre (village policeman), arrived to inspect operations. They found that Father Lagrave had blocked the hole in the wall. Police man Mocriau and Priest Lagrave began...
...library was overcrowded again by 1895. A member of the Corporation came to the rescue and offered to build a new reading room, but died before contributing the cash. Finally, drawing from its unrestricted funds, Harvard remodeled again. Tearing down Gore's clustered columns, and a vaulted plaster ceiling, workmen made the reading room into an example of "uncompromising bareness and Spartan simplicity of furnishing...
...first step, workmen will soon plant three threes to replace those that were wrecked in last September's hurricane, he said. The trees, two of which will bloom, will be spaced to break up the monotony of the radiating paths in the court. The job, which also includes planting new shrubs, will be completed this spring...
Letter Man. In Providence, the State Workmen's Compensation Commission stopped the total-disability compensation of $28 a week that they had been paying Albert J. Cappalli for 15 months for a sprained back after learning that he had been playing varsity football at the University of Rhode Island...
Dying Flies. Twenty miles out of town, workmen were frantically erecting a village of prefab houses for the conference hangers-on. In the lobby of Bangkok's Trocadero Hotel, where the bigwigs are to stay, painters laid new colors on walls, ceiling and passing guests. In the upper stories, a grim-faced "sanitation engineer," armed with a huge, mechanical Flit-gun, mowed down his enemies by the thousands. "The flies are dying," cracked one preconference resident, "like hotel guests...