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...London County Council, created by the Local Government Act of 1888, set about tidying up London. This spring a considerably more livable London is celebrating the L. C. C.'s jubilee with all manner of polite and showy functions, not the least of which will be a firemen's parade in June for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. To add its voice to the general huzza, the Gas Light and Coke Co. this month released in London a 20-minute documentary film called The Londoners, sketching London life from Dickens' day to the present...
...night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...
...American Congress of Labor "supersede and embrace" A. F. of L., C. I. 0., and the hitherto independent Big Four railroad brotherhoods (Engineers, Firemen & Enginemen, Railway Conductors, Trainmen...
...Jose, Calif, were surprised, one day last month, to see him chopping down the trees and shrubs around his two-room cottage, surprised next to see him move all his belongings out of the house and padlock the doors, surprised next to see smoke curling out of the building. Firemen came in time to save the framework but Edward Murphy's cottage was as good as destroyed. When police arrested him for violating the arson law, he was indignant. The nearest house was 100 feet from his. Having no insurance, he was perpetrating no fraud...
...Woburn's firemen's beds & bedding left the firehouse, smoke arose. The sleeping equipment was on fire. The red-faced firemen applied chemical extinguishers but Mayor Kane was there with the crowd. Cried he: "I ask you now, are those men worth $42 a week...