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Near San Jose, Calif., Dentist Jasper Gattuccio came upon a rickety old cart drawn by a brace of burros, saw in it a picturesquely gnarled, full-bearded gaffer, delightedly got out his camera to snap a picture. From the wagon jumped Peter Voiss, 74, to collect a 50? fee, explaining that he eked out his meagre income as a prospector by posing for pictures. Dentist Gattuccio refused to pay, took the pi:ture, later returned to take another. As Jasper Gattuccio clicked the shutter, Peter Voiss reached into his wagon for a shotgun, shot him dead. Prospector Voiss was bundled...
...Renfrewshire, Scotland, where a narrow little creek called the River Cart joins the twisting Clyde there is a fertile fan-shaped farm. It boasts three good fields, a bit of useless swamp, a shaded dirt road. For the past year what made it different from all other farm land in Scotland was that every time its farmer raised his eyes from the furrow he saw towering over his head the vast stern and mountainous superstructure of the greatest ship ever built in Britain, Queen Mary. When the farmer looked up from his field last week Queen Mary was gone, safe...
Part of the steel industry's bitter opposition to any & all efforts to upset the basing-point apple cart is founded in the fact that many plants are geographically obsolete. The steel consuming centre of the U. S. has shifted westward toward Detroit and Chicago, and f. o. b. prices would put the Pittsburgh and Youngstown districts at even more of a disadvantage than they now are. But the real cause is the steelmen's desire to preserve a system whose avowed purpose is to permit any steel company to compete for any business anywhere in the land...
...Majesty, who then sent for the script. 'Dear, dear,' she said. 'There are only two plays that I wanted to see and I am forbidden to see either of them.' " Concluded Playwright Housman proudly: "They were my play and Shaw's Apple Cart." To Father Charles Edward Coughlin, who called him "a servant of the money changers," New York's Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with...
...that engineers may also pass, a small cart has been placed in the tunnel. Thus, lying prone on the cart, with the trolleys a few inches above the nape of his neck and the subway just below him, the engineer grasps a cable and draws himself and cart through the tunnel...