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...yard. As each fighting cat was tossed into a wagon, neighbors leaning from windows cheered. Twenty-eight cats were captured this way. Only eight remained. The sun went down, another tomcat lost its freedom. Dusk fell, and with it two more tomcats. As darkness crept into the Dornsife house the officers called for lights. The lights had been turned off days before. Smiling sardonically, the Widow Dornsife refused to produce a lamp...
...Thomas Edison, then formed his own company, got a contract in 1887 to install an electric railway in Richmond, Va. Said he later: "I believed in myself and staked a fortune. All hands worked with a vengeance. . . . The morning we tried the first trolley up the steepest grade, it crept up the 10% slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass meeting demanding electric instead of mule...
...Berlin and in Vienna last week Fascist rioting at last crept from proletariat to fashionable quarters, terrorized tourists on the boulevards, respected not even the immunity of foreign diplomats sipping champagne in Vienna's smart International Country Club...
...straight hair-boarded a boat at Seattle last week. He was Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 63, curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, bound for Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska. There he will grub for the ancient debris which indicates that Mongoloid peoples millenia ago crept across Bering Strait,* down the western coast of the Americas and thence across the mountains and the rest of the Western hemisphere. Four times Dr. Hrdlicka has been North since 1926, always with parties of diggers. This time, he told newsgatherers, "I am going alone, because the economy program...
...repose of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon, made more trouble for the police than do St. Gandhi's non-violent Nationalists. Treating the monkeys exactly like Gandhites, police riot squads drove them out of town with lathis (long staves) every day. But every night the monkeys crept back to plague New Delhi, caused the United Press to report that "monkeys dominated the city...