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...Sinclair waved aside the stock certificate for his third of the "Tres Rios Club," telling Everhart to put it away for him at Tres Rios, b) that the "Tres Rios Club" never materialized. All that happened was that Father-in-law Fall paid off some debts on the old homestead. Commenting last week on his son-in-law's so belated testimony, Father-in-law Fall said: "It was an open business deal. .... There is nothing to conceal...
...mechanical engineers of middle age, Mr. Schwab's doctrines had a further significance. Those men could recall the bloody Homestead Strike of 1892 when Mr. Schwab, then one of the late Andrew Carnegie's "young men" and a superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades...
Ludlow, Vt., home of U. S. Attorney John Garibaldi Sargent, eleven miles from Montpelier, was completely submerged. Mrs. Sargent escaped injury. The Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., was not reached by the waters but not far away, Pauline Hall, an invalid, was caught by the cloudburst and marooned in an automobile. She died...
Darwin's Home. Dr. Buckston Browne, London surgeon, offered, and the Association accepted, an endowment to buy and maintain for the nation the homestead of Charles Darwin at Down...
...Author. Short, slim, quiet, Dillwyn Parrish lives in Claymont, Del., the young bachelor master of an old homestead, exchanging visits often with the sister whose bookishness revived his interest in life after a bad time...