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In the Driftway
March 20, 1935 issue

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The Drifter would like publicly to announce that he is getting pretty tired of the blizzard of 1888. This famous storm, survivors of which — not one of them under seventy — met at their annual luncheon the other day, has been gone into thoroughly to the accompaniment of every sort of panegyric. Trains stopped for it, hotels burst their buttons trying to accommodate the commuters marooned in town overnight, or maybe over two nights, drifts were forty or fifty feet high, snow men grew spontaneously in the streets, and the main avenues were not cleared for the horse cars until the evening of July 4, 1935, when patriotic bonfires caused the last snowdrift to give up its tarnished ghost.

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DRIFTERS; RAILROADS; ROGUES & vagabonds; TRANSPORTATION; PUBLIC utilities; TRAVELERS
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