Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knox County, Ky., is feud country. Within its hilly boundaries, no spot is more remote than the little country store on Cold Fork Creek. 18 mi. back in the mountains from Barbourville. Walter Smith and Link Gambil, two men who had hated each other for a long time, walked into the store, grasped left hands, started pistolling each other. Feudist Gambil was shot seven times; Feudist Smith thrice. Both died...
...Street Department rushed to Warren & Philip Streets to hunt a leak in the city's trunkline sewer. Expertly they flipped off the manhole lid. Ten feet below, icy black water, full of awful things, surged on to the Hudson. Once this sewer had been an open creek. When it was enclosed 35 years ago, engineers, according to the custom of the times, gave it great girth for a full current...
Last week the third and greatest unit went into operation when Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. started its first generator, began to deliver power to Baltimore. Safe Harbor, Pa. got its name many years ago when the mouth of Conestoga Creek offered shelter to Susquehanna flat boats. In 1929, when work began on Safe Harbor dam, it was a quiet village. Little work had been done when the stock-market crashed in November but construction went on at a faster pace. The company's bankers, Aldred & Co. of New York, supplied money to Arundel Corp., construction engineers, whenever they...
Nearby at Vardaman, Miss, are two farmer brothers similarly afflicted. Each works alternate half days. While one plows the other soaks himself in a creek. Every once in a while the worker saunters to the creek for a cool dowsing. The brothers have a sister who clunks herself in the cistern back of their house...
...Elliott, Staten, L. N. Y., R. P. Elms, Cambridge, R. W. Emory, Baltimore, Md., W. M. Evans, Munhall, Pa., G. Evashwick, Turtle Creek, Pa., L. G. Feld, Kansas City, Mo., H. G. Fernald, Cambridge, H. A. Fierst, Mount Vernon, N. Y., W. H. Fink, Brookline, E. W. Fox, Springfield, F. J. Frisoli, Cambridge, P. Fuller, Boston, E. F. Gardner, Boston. V. B. Glunts, Roxbury, R. Goodman, Brockton, R. S. Goodwin, Cambridge, E. Greene, Cambridge, L. D. Hallett, West Somerville, J. H. Hallowell, Brookline, Pa., E. N. Hartley, Lowell, D. W. Haycock, Calais, Mc., L. Hershon, Cambridge, M. L. Hoffman, Mattapan...