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There is one type of structure, and only one, which the modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy. Even the late Jacob Volk, who called him- self ''the most destructive force in Manhattan," even the Napoleonic Herman Sonken of Kansas City, who has torn down whole towns and railroads in his time?even such experienced destroyers have much respect for vaults, especially vaults of reinforced concrete lined with steel...
...accessories dealer of Emelle, Ala., accosted Esau Robinson, local Negro, about a long-due account on a storage battery. Negro Robinson refused to surrender the battery, promised to come immediately to the Boyd store with what he owed. Instead he appeared with his father Tom, his brothers Oliver and Jacob, all armed, and bashed Clarence Boyd over the head with a bottle. Thereupon Grover Boyd, uncle of Clarence, drew a revolver from his nearby automobile, opened fire on the Negroes. They shot him dead; Jacob, Tom and Oliver escaped. A hurrying crowd seized Esau Robinson, strung him to a tree...
...posse of 300 Alabamans searched for Tom and his sons at the cabin of Tom's brother John. John fired on them, killed white Charles Marrs. The posse killed John, burned his cabin down. Two carloads of other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt...
...Jacob de Haas, Mrs. Edward Jacobs...
Yvonne Raskob, 17, daughter of Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee, attending a Catholic student convention in Chicago, said she had pledged herself to total abstinence from liquor, remarked: "I am sure my father thinks being Dry is all right for girls...