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Newspaper
Des Moines Daily Leader
Location
Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1902
Page
2
A former railroad station agent recounts a perilous August night sprinting through a storm to warn an express train of a washed out bridge two miles west of his station. Despite lightning and flooding, the engineer halted in time, and the crew faced the ordeal with abrupt, dramatic actions.
In a reflective reminiscence a railroad man contemplates sleep aids for engineers and tells a vivid tale of Sacramento’s Mountain Division. He recalls partners with bold nicknames, a dangerous downhill spur to Pleasant Valley, a Chinaman named Charley Lee, a bribery attempt in the laundry business, and a fatal car crash that yielded scientific curiosities. He ends as the whistle of No 6 calls him to depart, slipping into a hurried exit to his cork shoes and vest.
Jauriel White, daughter of Henry White, first secretary at the American embassy in London, is set to marry Marshall Owen Roberts of New York. The tale traces Mrs Roberts and Muriel White’s British social ascent from debutante to potential duchess, interwoven with transatlantic loyalties and a gilded London circle.
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