Word: minerality
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...also as difficult to quarrel with the whole or any portion of Mr. Bacon's speech. However, the words of the Pennsylvania coal miner who sent his son to college at considerable sacrifice so that the latter might be able in after-life to "look any man in the face and tell him to go to Hell", perhaps present a sounder philosophy of life than the noted speaker makes them out to hold in his anecdote. Mr. Bacon's objections to this code are rightly chosen insofar as the man might have meant opposition to the society of which...
...Miner...
...Berlin, Joseph Szigert, disconsolate Hungarian miner, swallowed 1 Ib. of dynamite, put a bit more in his mouth, chewed it, blew...
Died. Daniel Miner Lord, 85, "dean of advertising men," onetime collector of daily receipts from Chicago horsecar conductors, runner of errands who took an electrotype advertisement to a sectarian newspaper, discussed it, was engaged as an advertising salesman, became experienced, eventually founded one of the pioneer Chicago advertising companies, Lord & Thomas, now Lord & Thomas and Logan. So successful was Lord & Thomas that Mr. Lord could refuse a $1,000,000 contract from a leather tannery when a guarantee of results was demanded. In 1904 he retired, sold his controlling interest in the firm to Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman...
...March 24 issue of TIME on p. 76 under the heading "Explosion," you state that ''In Pottsville, Pa., John Wincavage, miner was blown to pieces when the warmth of his body exploded a charge of dynamite in his pocket...