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When Sidney Hillman's strike opened last week, strange things happened. In its first seven days violence was so slight that for color reporters were forced to describe blackened eyes & scratched faces during a picket v. strikebreakers' brawl at Hazleton, Pa., the pricking of several women with hatpins at nearby Nanticoke. No one was killed, no one was hospitalized. More important than any demonstration was the fact that some employers welcomed the strike as a storm which might settle the dust of disorganization, and others got down to business by forming an association of their...
...grogshop and package store. Prosecuting the case was smart, 26-year-old Lawyer Jacob Stagman, who is becoming somewhat of a specialist in Dram-Shops actions. He has had three other such cases, won $35,000 for the mother of a man who was shot dead in a saloon brawl, another $1,200 for an Armenian who got his skull cracked during a crap game in a saloon when he persisted in kibitzing after a superstitious dice-thrower complained that he was a jinx...
...friends Daniel Higgins & Will Wright claimed they were set upon without provocation by Doorman Charles F. ("Sailor") Grande. Wright's skull was fractured. Taken to police court, where her party as well as the doorman were booked for assault. Miss St. John explained how she came through the brawl unscathed...
...same time, Winthrop and Dunster engaged in a free-hitting brawl, ending in favor of the Puritans, 11-6. They found the twirling of George W. Blackwood '37 to their liking, knocking out 11 hits in the first four innings...
...three days no less than 50 airplane flights were made from Anchorage, bearing prospectors to the sands of Kuskokwim Bay, where gold, platinum and palladium strikes had been reported. Overnight a tent city sprang up on the beach with all the trimmings of Klondike days, including a gaming brawl which required the attention of a Federal marshal and the ministrations of one Alice Forsgreen. "the lady barber" of nearby Bethel, who doubles as a nurse...