Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...christening was done by two local young women, Miss Genevieve Parker, champion dog team driver, and Mrs. Emma Delavergne, wife of the Mayor. A beribboned bottle was broken against the nose of each machine, but the bottle did not contain champagne, which is a lost word in Alaska. The odor that came from the ruck of glass and red, white and blue silk was the odor of aviation gasoline, raw and pungent...
...evidently come into existence years ago in just the way the new pool had been formed. He remarked the presence of much gypsum and calcite in the region, two minerals soluble in water. He pointed out that there must be a sheet of subterranean water in the locality since wells have to go down only 10 to 40 feet. Finally, he pounced upon a sink hole they showed him only a few hundred feet from the white cow's sulphurous swimming hole. This hole was only just big enough to admit the body of a cow, but a local...
...workers. The operators have accepted of course. And why not? Some years ago their workers struck and received all their demands except recognition of their union. Within a year, helpless without a union, all their gains had been taken from them. The employers are united in a local council and operate a joint employment office. There are no valid reasons on which to oppose concerted action by their employees...
...President Pringle is right. When undergraduate affairs are such that the local officers of the law must intervene to prevent the college from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp...
Patent monopoly of the Bell telephone endured for 17 years. Then independent companies immediately sprang up. The Bell system fought them ruthlessly for years. But local support kept them going, expanding. They formed national organizations, gave a tolerable toll service, far inferior to that of the Bell. Competition stimulated the use of phones. All companies that were fairly efficient made money. In 1912 a sort of peace was worked out between the rivals. The Bell began to give long distance service to Independents. When an Independent was bought out facilities. At present there are 8,200 Independent exchanges still existing...