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Show WHEN A TOWN DIES. When a town dies there isn't any funeral, no flowers, not even pallbearersit pallbear-ersit just DIES. "When a town dies somebody or many somebodys have' failed to ad- j ' fninistier the proper dosages of civic , pep and pride. When a town dies the mapmakers save a speck of printer's ink. When a town dies the trains run on past it, the sidewalks revert back to their native element, .'the birds build nests in the town hall and the cows graze in the public park. It's a sad and sorry thing when ,' town dies, for it hasn't the satisfaction satisfac-tion even of knowing who killed it. But when a town dies, it just, dies ' and- dies and dies, and believe us, its a DEAD ONE. |