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...first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists of an unemployed minister, a woman who pretends to bear the baby several days before it is kidnaped, the doctor who attends at the bogus birth, and a nurse. The "mother" gets excessively nervous, so the minister, the brains of the organization, orders...
Making each English homestead...
Even during peace, martial law has sometimes been established in regions terrorized by violence. Whole counties in Colorado, Idaho, and Montana have been placed under martial law during large mining strikes. In the East, reglina in Pennsylvania were under martial law during the Homestead Strike of 1877 and the Anthracite Strike of 1902. Disastrous floods last spring made it necessary for the Army to take complete charge in Cincinnati, Louisville, and other cities along the Ohio River...
...Hanover's Bertha, carried the stable's orange colors to victory in 1930. That was four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover, Pa. A strictly blue-ribbon breeding farm, Hanover Shoe Farms owns such famed stallions as Sandy Flash, Dillon Axworthy, the 1926 Hambletonian winner Guy McKinney, and Shirley Hanover's sire, Mr. McElwyn...
...Charles Michael Schwab, 75, who became manager of Homestead Steel plant immediately after the bloody union-crushing of 1892 when ten men were killed, and who last week returned to the U. S. from taking the cure at Bad Nauheim, the current upheavals between Labor and Capital are merely "a phase...