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...much you couldn't talk to your wife in bed without yelling." But Nettie never struck enough to keep body & soul together: in 1935, hounded by creditors, she gave up and disappeared from Elk Basin.* No one knows what became of her, but if she could see her homestead today she would feel like shooting herself with her own revolver...
...Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...
Though U.S. newspapers probably give more space to baseball than to any other sport, little of it goes to Josh Gibson, the Homestead Grays or Negro baseball in general. Yet colored ball could have been good copy at any time since 1885, when the first professional Negro nine was made up of waiters from Long Island's tony Argyle Hotel. To be acceptable as opponents for local semi-pros, they posed as Cubans, babbled gibberish on the field, called themselves the Cuban Giants...
...rich Eagles, like the rich Red Sox, have discovered that it takes more than a bank roll to win a pennant. The club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...
...water on which are located Cleveland and St. Louis; two specific powers granted Congress by the Constitution; four freedoms in the Bill of Rights; the first U.S. census which could report railway mileage. Also: to identify the Nullification Act and the price of public land before passage of the Homestead...