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...present the only Tongs fighting, are the Hip Sings, the On Leongs. Many others exist;?the Hong Tuck Tong, made up of cigar makers; the Gum Longs, of fishermen on the Sacremento river; the Gin Sin Sear, founded by Little Pete, famed Chinese badman; the Bo Sin Sear, its rival; the Suey Sings, the Juke Lums, Om Yicks, Bing Kongs. The war of 1905 brought in twelve tongs on one side, nine on the other. Remembering this, police commissioners in all cities stationed double patrols, last week, in their Chinatowns...
...duty assigned to a young child by state law. The Judge himself, John T. Raulston of Winchester, Tenn., after opening the court and calling a special sitting of the grand jury to reindict Scopes so that there might be no mistake, sat back in his chair chewing gum, waving to friends among the spectators, occasionally calling for order when growls of prejudice greeted the cross-questioning to which Darrow and Malone were putting the venire...
Said the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "There is justice in the world. . . . How comforting that must be to Mary?only 350 years after being killed...
...Mail, is to resign after July 1 and become General Operations Manager. The directorate includes such men as Marshall Field III of Chicago, Stuyvesant Fish of Manhattan, William A. Rockefeller (grandson of the late brother of John Davison Rockefeller), P. K. Wrigley (son of the chewing-gum man). The great strength of the project lies in the fact that no stock is to be sold publicly: "the promoters regard the project as partly a business venture, partly a national development which will help place the U. S. in the very forefront of aviation and pave the way to a network...
...others were difficult to feed, but Chester can forage for himself. Chewing gum and erasers are his favorite delicacies. All the menagerie could live on fish-food, however, the Freshman menagerie owners insist...