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Early next morning 400 strikers gathered at the Gates mine of the Frick company, 15 mi. from, Uniontown. Six mine bosses followed by a few maintenance men started to shove through the pack. A picket leader jostled a mine guard. Stones began to fly. "Let 'em have it!" roared a mine boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George...
...feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust barriers...
...contracts brought good news to British ironmasters, not so good news to U. S. ironmasters. Favored by the pending British-Argentine trade treaty, British companies will deliver two-thirds of the 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron, U. S. companies the rest. The last such contract, in 1924, went entirely to U. S. companies...
...present world's record, with by far the biggest tuna ever landed in U. S. waters, a 705-lb. fish, 9 ft. 3½, in. long, 6 ft. 3 in. around. Scene of action was in the transatlantic steamer lane near Ambrose Lightship, only 23½ mi. from downtown Manhattan...
More than a week passed before a lineman discovered the last missing team between Sudbury and Abitibi Canyon in Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes...