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...President Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, charging that bituminous mine operators were breaking their wage contract with the union, and asking what the Government is going to do about it. Shortly afterward Secretary Hoover, Attorney General Sargent and President Green of the American Federation of Labor had long conferences at the White House...
...crone was taken sick in the Calle Margaritas Cervantes, where Vespaciano lived. He cured her by repeating a formula, which his neighbors whispered to each other afterward with frightened glances. But there was no fright in the woman. She worshiped him and came to his patio the next night with a crippled friend. The women were joined by an old man and a boy, and every evening after that, when twilight enchanted the Calle Margaritos Cervantes, a grotesque company came up the blue street one by one and knocked on the door of José Vespaciano...
...hair and blue eyes of his choice are possessed by the daughter of the poor country druggist. Therefore he enters the drug shop, and makes it pay vast dividends by the introduction of a jazz tearoom. The low comedian marries the heiress, and everybody heads for the happy ever afterward...
Death stalked through the streets of Washington at midnight. Stopping before a house on S Street, he entered. He approached a bedside in an upper room around which a woman and her two young sons were gathered, attending their husband, their father. Just 30 minutes afterward death claimed his due?probably the foremost politician the Negro race has produced...
...Burt Green Wilder, born in 1841, was graduated from Lawrence Scientific School (Harvard) in 1862 in anatomia summa cum laude. He served in the Civil War as surgeon of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry (colored). Afterward he became curator of herpetology for the Boston Society of Natural History, professor of neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell. He was a member of the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards...