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Last week came the day to open Old Forge schools for another year. Almost the only teachers to show up at school were the 24 newcomers. "Scab teachers!" growled miner fathers, and kept their children home. "Scab teachers!" shrilled miner mothers as they rushed out to pull hair, scratch faces. "Scab students!'' yelled football players, happily pummeling nonstriking pupils. Up & down the streets marched strikers and sympathizers with flying banners...
...commissioners for Lewis & Clark County decreed an increase of .85 mills in the local tax rate. A posse was hunting one Henry John Miller, following the murder of a teacher at the State Industrial School in Miles City. The proposed dog races at the State Fair were off. George Miner, agent at the Northern Pacific station, was selling travelers' insurance on false teeth and Paris Cleaners were doing three ladies' dresses for $1. Field mouse kid shoes were on sale at Smithers for $6.75 and rib boil could be purchased at Hennessy Bros...
...from confident of winning a strike. At most they claimed only 100,000 members out of 430,000 steel employes. Not famed for energy or decisiveness, President Green went before the 188 Amalgamated delegates in the Elks' Auditorium and outdid himself. Said he: "I come as a miner speaking to steel workers. ... I know what it is to go starving, what it is to go through 18 months of strike and to taste the bitter dregs of defeat. "I don't want you to risk a conflict when the odds are against us. It would set us back...
Other elections from the Harvard faculty were as follows: Edgar Anderson, Franzo H. Crawford, Chester L. Dawes, Jacob P. Den, John F. Ebersole, Sterling P. Fergusson, Cyrus H. Fiske, Henry Jackson, Jr., Matt B. Jones, Donald H. Menzel, Richard S. Meriam, Harry R. Mimac, Leroy M. S. Miner, Arthur E. Monroe, Robert H. Pfeiffer, William C. Quimby, Sumner H. Schlicter, Carle C. Zimmerman...
...brothers, Colonel Bradley was born at Johnstown, Pa. His father, Captain Hugh Bradley, was an Irishman who had fought in the Civil War. Young "Ed'' first worked as a roller in a steel mill. He quit that job, went West. There legend records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs...