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Three days later, another flyer made a record in the No. 1 event of National Air Race week at Cleveland, the 100-mi. Thompson Trophy Race. Lowell Bayles, onetime coal miner, of Springfield, Mass., flying a Gee-Bee speedster, covered the 100 miles in 25 min. 23:88 sec. His average speed, 236 m.p.h., was 35 m.p.h. better than the late Charles W. ("Speed") Holman's when he won the race a year...
...course of his financial manipulations Clark came into possession of the indigent Butte Miner. To his surprise and delight he found it a handy weapon for belaboring Marcus Daly. Daly endured the attacks until 1889, then vowed to put his enemy in his place...
...Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work. In time the new paper attained some 20,000 circulation (practically the saturation point for the State) mostly in Butte, where it gave Clark's Miner a sound thrashing. A special "paper train'' of Daly's own Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad would rush it there, hot off the press...
Three years ago the mining company bought the old enemy Butte Miner from the Clark heirs. William A. Clark Jr. tried to keep the feud alive by taking away the Miner staff and starting a new Butte daily, but there was not enough hatred left. After a few months he abandoned the project. The battle was over. Of the original Standard editors only famed Charles H. ("Egg") Eggleston survived, and he was finally forced into comparative retirement by failing eyesight. A few printers and pressmen continued to turn out the ghostlike Standard-until last week...
Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...