Free The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos Page A

OF QUEENSBERRY DEAD      FLAMES WRECK SPICE PLANT COURT SETS ZOLA FREE
     
    a few years ago the anarchists of New Jersey, wearing the McKinley button and the red badge of anarchy on their coats and supplied with beer by the republicans, plotted the death of one of the crowned heads of Europe and it is likely that the plan to assassinate the president was hatched at the same time or soon afterward
     
It’s moonlight fair tonight upon the Wabash
From the fields there comes the breath of newmown hay
Through the sycamores the candlelight is gleaming
On the banks of the Wabash far away
     
    OUT FOR BULLY GOOD TIME
     
    Six Thousand Workmen at Smolensk Parade With Placards Saying Death To Czar Assassin.
    riots and streetblockades mark opening of teamster’s strike
     
    WORLD’S GREATEST SEA BATTLE NEAR
     
    Madrid police clash with 5000 workmen carrying black flag
    spectators become dizzy while dancer eats orange breaking record that made man insane

The Camera Eye (5)
    and we played the battle of Port Arthur in the bathtub and the water leaked down through the drawingroom ceiling and it was altogether too bad but in Kew Gardens old Mr. Garnet who was still hale and hearty although so very old came to tea and we saw him first through the window with his red face and John Bull whiskers and aunty said it was a sailor’s rolling gait and he was carrying a box under his arm and Vickie and Pompom barked and here was Mr. Garnet come to tea and he took a gramophone out of a black box and put a cylinder on the gramophone and they pushed back the tea-things off the corner of the table      Be careful not to drop it now they scratch rather heasy      Why a hordinary sewin’ needle would do maam but I ave special needles
    and we got to talking about Hadmiral Togo and the Banyan and how the Roosians drank so much vodka and killed all those poor fisherlads in the North Sea and he wound it up very carefully so as not to break the spring and the needle went rasp rasp      Yes I was a bluejacket miself miboy from the time I was a little shayver not much bigger’n you rose to be bosun’s mite on the first British hironclad the
Warrior
and I can dance a ornpipe yet maam      and he had a mariner’s compass in red and blue on the back of his hand and his nails looked black and thick as he fumbled with the needle and the needle went rasp rasp and far away a band played and out of a grindy noise in the little black horn came
God Save the King
and the little dogs howled

Newsreel IV
I met my love in the Alamo
    
When the moon was on the rise
Her beauty quite bedimmed its light
    
So radiant were her eyes
     
    during the forenoon union pickets turned back a wagon loaded with 50 campchairs on its way to the fire engine house at Michigan Avenue and Washington Street. The chairs it is reported, were ordered for the convenience of policemen detailed on strike duty
     
    FLEETS MAY MEET IN BATTLE TODAY
WEST OF LUZON
     
    three big wolves were killed before the dinner.
    A grand parade is proposed here in which President Roosevelt shall ride so that he can be seen by citizens. At the head will be a caged bear recently captured after killing a dozen dogs and injuring several men. The bear will be given an hour’s start for the hills then the packs will be set on the trail and President Roosevelt and the guides will follow in pursuit
    three Columbia students start auto trip to Chicago on wager
     
    GENERAL STRIKE NOW THREATENS
     
It’s moonlight fair tonight upon the Wa-abash
     
    OIL KING’S HAPPYEST DAY
     
    one cherub every five minutes market for all classes of real estate continues to be healthy with good demand for factory sites residence and business properties court bills break labor
     
    BLOODY SUNDAY IN MOSCOW
     
    lady angels are smashed troops guard oilfields America tends to become empire like in the days of the Caesars $5 poem gets rich husband eat less says Edison rich poker player falls dead when he draws