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...quarrelsome wenches proved last week on the old Toluca road near Mexico City whether the rope is mightier than the axe...
...Axe-wench Melquiades Luna rushed with flashing machete upon Rope-wench Dorotea Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...
...gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk, N. Y., was proposed. American Fork & Hoe is a typical large, closely held company. Its assets are near $10.000,000. Its earnings have never been disclosed to a curious public. President and general manager of the company...
...long ago tall, grave King Haakon VII belied his stern appearance, made the first contribution to a fund for the benefit of a woman with two children who, beaten repeatedly by her husband, finally killed him with an axe...
...Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Anna Sahl found William Burkowski-hacking at her front porch with an axe. Rebuked, William Burkowski admitted that he was a housewrecker, that he had mistaken her house for that of a client...