Word: firemanning
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...Clarksdale, Miss., last week, a fireman found a locust with a yellow W on its back. Old settlers said it meant war in seven years, told of similar locusts appearing before the last war, the Spanish American War, the Civil War, the Mexi...
...Wappingers Falls, N. Y., a man ordered Judd Schmidt to move his motor car from a restricted parking area. "Where d'y' get your authority?" demanded Mr. Judd. The man displayed a gold badge. Scoffed Mr. Judd: "Pooh, pooh, you're only a fireman." The badged man was Mayor John Flood of Wappingers Falls, who forthwith arrested contemptuous Mr. Judd...
...Alsatian stock, Debs was born Nov. 5, 1855 into a respectable bourgeois family at crude, democratic Terre Haute, Ind. His father kept a grocery store, read Victor Hugo. Gene left school at 14, spent a year scraping paint in a Vandalia railroad shop, became a locomotive fireman on the old Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. At 19 he gave up the only hard work he ever did because of his mother's fears for his safety...
...Manhattan last week Stern Bros. Department Store exhibited numerous Currier & Ives colored lithographs, found and also exhibited one of Currier & Ives original artists-Louis Maurer, 98. He went to work for Currier & Ives in 1850, drew on stone some of the famed "Life of a Fireman," "Life on the Plains" series. In 1884 he retired from the business of drawing and publishing colored prints. Today he collects seashells, plays the flute...
Heavy have been the recent losses of the Washington A. P. to press agentry: Lionel Charles Probert, onetime locomotive fireman left the head of the bureau to become publicity man for the Brothers Van Sweringen and Vice President of their Erie R. R. While covering the Senate oil scandals investigation, Bond E. Geddes dropped his pencil abruptly to become the press agent for Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. E. Ross Bartley covered Charles Gates Dawes' Vice Presidential campaign in 1924 so effectively that the Vice President made him his Chief Secretary at the capitol...