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...blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...
...picture on the town's official stationery, and the new champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...
...John G. Thompson of Kremlin, Va. is a little (3 ft. 10) but hefty (115 Ib.) Negro. When it comes to fighting sin, he is a mighty midget. Last week, before spellbound revivalist crowds, he demonstrated his pious art at Milwaukee's St. Matthew's Colored Methodist Episcopal Church...
...fuel to cook it. Indian police whipped the noisy and the neck-craners into discipline when game was near. They were skillful shots; one bullet or one arrow per bison was usually enough. Tixier predicted the extinction of the bison; the Osage killed them at random, usually left 150 Ib. of excellent meat on each carcass...
...sold to a giant (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ib.) newspaperman, Burridge Davenal Butler, owner of The Prairie Farmer, oldest (99 years) of its kind in the U. S. Owner Butler made WLS a public servant in the Midwest. Most famed alumnus of WLS programs is Gene Autry, who once sang on the Barn Dance. So did Ruth Etting, at first for nothing and then for $5 a night. Tony Wons read poetry and streamlined Shakespeare for the station. Fibber McGee & Molly worked there before they adopted those names, as did Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, now known...