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LIGHT WOMAN-Zona Gale-Appleton-Century ($2). Fluffy stage piece, transmogrified into the story of what happens in the old homestead (upstate New York) when oldest Son Nicholas arrives with playful Mitty, his supposed wife, for the family reunion...
Died. Patrick Burns, 81, millionaire Alberta rancher, board chairman of P. Burns & Co., Ltd. (meatpackers) which he sold in 1928 for $15,000,000; in Calgary. In 1878 he tramped 160 miles from Winnipeg to Tanner's Crossing where he staked out a homestead, sold his first two cows to the late railroad-builder Sir William Mackenzie...
...dime novels, Labor grew to hate the name more & more. For Pinkerton's was also making money by supplying armed guards to employers with labor troubles. In 1892 hard-boiled Henry Clay Frick imported 300 "Pinks" to fight a bloody, all-day battle with his steelworkers at Homestead, Pa. Ten were killed, 30 wounded and the public loudly protested. Congress passed a curious law forbidding the Government or any District of Columbia official ever again to employ a Pinkerton operative...
...Composer Foster's Biographer John Tasker Howard (Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour), the dwelling at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village was not built when Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness of the home...
Stressed in the steelmasters' announcements was the point that they had arrived at the new pay scales by negotiation with their company unions. In the Homestead, Pa. plant of Carnegie-Illinois, biggest U. S. Steel subsidiary, the company union promptly accepted the raise and a grimy group of pit men lined up for news photographers, singing Happy Days Are Here Again (see cut, p. 26). But most of the Carnegie-Illinois sheet & tinplate mill workers' representatives held out for a 15% raise. At Carnegie-Illinois' Duquesne plant, company union men balked at the cost-of-living scale...