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...people are so busy giving us the best telephone service that the world affords-and constantly bettering that-that they have no time to play the roles of alarm clocks, chronometers, et cetera, to the public. Telephone companies could undertake to deliver the milk, take the children to school, lock up the house, and act as burglar alarms. On the other hand, why not let telephone people keep at their development of communication-telephone, telephoto, television, and what next? H. B. MclNTYRE Division Engineer New England Tel. & Tel. Co. Providence, R. I. Strawberry Rash
During the first days of debate only one legislative advance was made. It became clear that the Government's vigorously worded clause punishing men striking contrary to the public weal would have to be supplemented by a similar clause punishing employers who lock their men out with similar effect. Originally the Government contended, rather lamely, that employers simply do not lock put their men against the public interest; but when the partisan aspect of this view was flayed on all sides in open debate, Sir Douglas Hogg was obliged to promise redrafting of the bill...
...those locks of hair?" he said. "Well, it is a long story but I can tell it in a few words. I bet a fellow-Westminster College student $100 that I could take 50 girls buggy-riding on 50 successive days without taking the same girl twice, and get a lock of hair from each. I not only won the bet, but found the quest for locks such a pleasant one that I did not stop until I had the hundred...
...high-steppers that could trot a mile in less than 2.30 min., and a small Negro "tiger" (coach-boy) up behind. On rainy days he used a closed carriage. He kept his sister in reserve and had to fall back on her one evening to keep up his lock-raping continuity...
...before the Civil War. Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was a Yankee peddler hawking notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear...