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Rochelle, N. Y...
...well blow a salute to an old steam locomotive chuffing around the neighborhood. Old No. 999, the New York Central engine, which put thrills into the melodramas of the 1890's, in 1893 attained a record of 112½ m.p.h. for 1 mi. at Cuttenden, near Buffalo, N. Y.∙ Her engineer on that run, Charlie Hogan of Buffalo, was again at her old throttle last week...
...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
...Preaching is doomed," cried a preacher last week at the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington. He was Dr. Bernard Chancellor Clausen, slight, blond, emphatic pastor of Syracuse, N. Y.'s First Baptist Church, a onetime Navy chaplain and communications officer on the U. S. cruiser North Carolina. Dr. Clausen began broadcasting sermons in 1920. He now speaks eight or ten sentences to "appropriate" music in a morning radio service, conducts a Saturday night radio Bible class with dramatized Bible stories. Last February Dr. Clausen spoke by air to the "largest audience of Baptists ever assembled," his listeners tuning...
Died. George Brinton Caldwell, 69, retired president of George B. Caldwell & Co., founder and first president of Investment Bankers' Association of America; of heart disease; in Bronxville, N. Y...