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...Baton Rouge, La. The State called him in, asked him what he would need. Said Ratkiller Nicholes: "I'll need one ground-up cow, 16 barrels of sweet potatoes, 16 full cheeses and 50 niggers." The 50 Negroes distributed cow, potatoes and cheese, all poisoned, throughout 50-mile drain ditches. Next day 15,000 rats lay dead...
...railroads of the United States is a matter of grave concern. . . . Only wise and timely Federal aid has averted the financial break-down of important systems. This situation touches every citizen. . . . The relief that the present emergency has made it necessary to grant to the railroads is a drain on the Federal Treasury and any ultimate loss will constitute a burden on every taxpayer. The present deplorable position of the railroads is not due wholly to stagnation of traffic. . . . Many of the present ills are due to governmental, financial, labor and management policies, some wrong in conception, some wrong...
...months ago Publisher Macfadden tried a new tack. He took personal charge, essayed a comparative clean-up of the sheet, hired a Harvard man as manager. Also, because he was feeling more than ever the drain upon his purse, he called upon his employes to take a pay cut by buying stock (TIME, June 20). But it was too late...
...Philip Street, thought he heard faint cries. Then he saw a head bobbing toward him through the darkness. Gripping the bottom of the ladder with one hand, with the other he grabbed a man's limp body just before the filthy current swept into a 75-ft. down-drain. A rope pulled the half-conscious Debo up through the Grand Street manhole, 800 ft. from his starting point. Hospitalized, John Debo told his story...
...weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser's strong room in the Lusitania...