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And I couldn't make myself believe that it was in the same world with Centralia. "Then after a while it occurred to me that all those people were going home. Everybody was going home. "At first I wasn't frightened. Something inside me was singing over and over the songs of the opera. I was too far in my dream to be much frightened. "Then all at once I got oh, so tired. And cold.
Thereupon Douglas offered a bill for a donation of public lands to aid the State of Illinois in the construction of a central railroad from Cairo to Galena, with a branch from Centralia to Chicago. Though Breese did not actively oppose his colleague, his lack of cordiality no doubt prejudiced Congress against a grant of any description.
Of course they saw to it that the newspaper stories which went out from Centralia that night were the right kind of stories; and next morning all America read how a group of "wobblies" had armed themselves with rifles, and concealed themselves on the roof of the I. W. W. headquarters, and deliberately and in cold blood had opened fire upon a peaceful parade of unarmed war veterans.
Both paused en route to visit the State Fair, then in full blast at Centralia. Curious crowds followed them around the fair grounds, deeming the rival candidates quite as worthy of close scrutiny as the other exhibits. Ten miles from Charleston, they left the train to be escorted by rival processions along the dusty highway to their destination.
The thing to do now was to get the five thousand guns and ammunition cases out of Tacoma by surprising the enemy. Thus far, nothing but the explosion of the bomb at the Centralia station could have betrayed the plot.
I'd never known any one full of play like you yet play that is so much more than just play. Sometimes a picture of Centralia would come to me when I'd hear you telling about my having lived in Florence. Sometimes when I was listening to stories of things you and I had done in Italy I'd see that old place where I used to put suspenders in boxes ! Katie, how strange it all was.
And then, shoved in a crevice between the logs, they saw a soiled and crumpled envelope. Taking it to the window, they read plainly enough the address "E. O. Chandler, Fort McMurray." There was no postmark but in the upper left hand corner was this printing "Hill Howell, Contractor, Centralia, Kansas." "It's one of the envelopes that Colonel Howell has down in camp," exclaimed Roy.
On our arrival at Victoria, however, we found that Lee had surrendered at Appomattox and the war was at an end. For a long time I was accused of the killing of several people at Centralia, in September, 1864, but I think my worst enemies now concede that it is impossible for me to have been there at the time.
"It came to Centralia the first one that had ever been there. I heard the people next door talking about it.
They all seemed to be sure that snares and temptations would await them, and would Vida Sommers please say how these could be avoided by young and impressionable girls of good figure and appearance who were now waiting on table at the American House in Centralia, Illinois, or accepting temporary employment in mercantile establishments in Chicago, or merely living at home in Zanesville, Ohio, amid conditions unbearably cramping to their aspirations?
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