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...elements. Director Zoeller, who had spent five years preparing for this show, was sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening, two attendants at a long bar made the ruddy guests feel quite at home...
...engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company (The Route of the "Royal Scot"), Mr. McMullen has been studying during the past year the opperating methods of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...That he wrote the following letter to his mother on Aug. 22, 1893, at which time he was president of the Texas Midland Railroad...
Michigan towns this year have had twelve successful bank robberies. Midland, Mich., fearing that her turn might come, had deputized several businessmen to bear arms against such an emergency. One morning last week two gunmen entered Midland's Chemical State Savings Bank. The bank cashier ran to the bank president's aid, and the bandits began to fire, wounded both, ran out into the street, jumped into a car. Plunk! A bullet struck the driver's arm, the car crashed. The bandits leaped out, looked around for their enemy, shot an innocent truck driver who was passing...
...Come on Tom, the King has something for you!" Cried Sir Josiah Stamp, Chairman of the road (London, Midland & Scottish) to Engineer Clarke who whipped off his overalls, slipped on a clean pair, vigorously wiped his boots and climbed down to receive from His Majesty the medal of the Order of the British Empire, for Meritorious Service...