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Threading his way through congested Sunday traffic near Chicago last week, many a motorist with an automobile radio heard a voice interrupt the program with such comments as: "All motorists from Joliet bound for points east of Hammond should use U. S. Highway No. 6 to avoid a detour on Route No. 30 between New Lenox and Frankfort...
...Chicago's northwest suburbs, who had come to tell Superintendent Puffer what they had just told their school board about Principal Charles O'Hearn. Said Teacher Clarabelle Lindsay, 26: "He keeps putting his hands on me." Said Teacher Laurinda Cleary, 26: "On me, too." Gasped Teacher Mary Hammond, 50: "My, my! He took me in the basement and hugged...
...same board predicted a "disaster"' corn crop of 1,439,135,000 bu., worst in 55 years, down 850,000,000 bu. from last year's harvest. *The phrase originated on the floor of the U. S. Senate in 1858 when South Carolina's James Henry Hammond challenged the economic power of the North thus: "You dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
Died. Sir Lionel Phillips, 81, South African gold miner, longtime head of Rand Mines, Ltd.; in Capetown, Union of South Africa. In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece...
Died. John Hays Hammond Sr., 81, famed mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine...