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next day the newspaper offices clattered with sound. Typewriters pecked endlessly. The Morkrum machines chattered so continually that they merged themselves into a dull roar.
The last of a long line of Kings resigned in favor of a republic. Three men adrift in a boat were picked up off Hatteras after thirteen days at sea. A police squad raided a lottery agency in the City Hall. A famous financial man was killed in a plane crash. A notorious procuress was found murdered on the edge of a pond in the park. Sixteen girls were hustled by police from the gates of a mill and charged with picketing and suspicion as reds.
The police raided a club frequented only by millionaires of the oldest families and found each locker had its quota of forbidden liquids. Sixteen miners were trapped
