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With these words a Federal judge in Pittsburgh last week addressed five laborers, two clerks, two farmers, two engineers, two mechanics, a bank clerk, a writer, a lumber dealer, a carpenter, a plumber and a banker. He was instructing them in their duties as grand jurors...
Referee--Edwin H. Bradford, Jr. '26. Clerk of the Course--Henry R. Watson W. Timer--John Clement...
...Empire Building. That was the end of Samuel Insull's power. Almost forgotten in the ensuing uproar was the fact that the same hands that rocked the boat of public trust had also rocked the cradle of electrical development in the Midwest. In 1879 Samuel Insull. a young clerk in London, read an advertisement in the Times for a part-time stenographer. He got a job with the London agent of Thomas Edison. Later Edison's chief engineer, E. H. Johnson, visited London. Like most Americans he was distressed at the British habit of working only in business...
...wanted to quit. One day they cracked out a few grains of tin. Later a full-fledged vein was uncovered. The Bolivian went to catch some Ilamas, loaded them with tin ore, plodded down to La Paz. Soon all Bolivia had heard that Simon Patino, onetime grocer's clerk, was growing rich...
That was in 1905. Next year the agent of a U. S. firm, reported to be the Guggenheims, appeared with an offer to buy the Salvadora mine, which Simon Patino had acquired from a Portuguese prospector in payment for a grocery bill-a deal which cost the clerk his store job. Patino wanted to sell but his wife did not. "We will go bankrupt with Salvadora," she cried, "or you will be el gran Mirador, the greatest of tin miners." Senor Patino climbed on his mule and went back to his mine...