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...Paris, one Renée Valette, 18, leaped from the Eiffel Tower to die, as many another had done successfully. After twirling down 35 feet, her skirt caught on a projection, where she dangled until workmen, scolding, hauled her to security...
...Williamsport, Pa., and in Collinwood (outskirt of Cleveland), two little bands of workmen have been holding regular meetings after shop hours. They are employes of the New York Central R. R., and "bands" is meant musically. The week of June 12 the men will take their instruments to Grand Central and LaSalle Street stations, respectively, and serenade the Twentieth Century Limited as it starts out June 15 on its Silver (25th) Anniversary...
Citizens of a Missouri town called Braggadocio hammered and sawed industriously in their town square. Idlers eyed the workmen judiciously and offered suggestions. The workmen were building a scaffold...
...made an unmitigated curse. He thought, or pretended to think, that the lighting never exactly reproduced the marvelous tint of blue for which the grotto of Capri is famed. Lights of every sort were tried. Finally enormous arc lights were installed, and in the confined space of the grotto workmen tending them were almost roasted. A courtier protested. "Stop!" commanded King Ludwig, "I don't wish to know how the light is made, I only care to see the effect. It is not right...
...Fairview, Ky., a concrete obelisk mounts 351 feet into the air. Built by Southern hands, it is a memorial to Jefferson Davis, onetime President of the Confederate States of America. Last week workmen were completing an elevator installation; on June 3 the monument, which stands on the estate where Davis was born, will be formally dedicated. With the exception of the Washington Monument, it is the highest memorial shaft in the world...