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...teach others, should consult the Appointment Office. Headmasters of boarding schools are often ready to consider inexperienced teachers. Salaries at these schools range from $1000 to $1500 in the first year, besides all living expenses. Boarding schools are in need of men who can guide boys, and may employ such men even though they plan to teach for only a year or two. These young teachers are able to save a large part of their salaries...
Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...
...actually selling more diamonds than the great producers! ... If this continues a collapse in the industry which provides the South African Government with ?3,000,000 in taxes annually is sure to come, and the country will have to provide for thousands of starving diamond workers whom we now employ...
...Subsequent intelligence from Danbury, last week, showed that the gas which had escaped (and which may not have been the whole cause of the fatalities) was not methyl chloride but a compound of ethyl chloride and methyl bromide, called "Methide" by its manufacturers. Most manufacturers employ the safe methyl chloride in their machines...
...intentions, as announced by subordinates: 1) to confiscate all lands held by the Yaqui in their principal stronghold, the State of Sonora; 2) to distribute the Yaqui themselves throughout Mexico on small units of land, thus definitely finally breaking up the tribes as a national unit; 3) to employ in accomplishing this stupendous task every weapon of modern warfare, including poison...