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...Crimson oarsmen will attempt to gain revenge for the defeat handed them by the Ithacans last year, when the chief vent of the Spring Day regatta on Cayuga was rowed in a miner hurricane, and many considered the final outcome not a just one although Cornell undoubtedly had a fine crew...
Bobby [my son] & I, on a two-year walking tour of the Americas, went through that mine two weeks ago, by the grace of a friendly, tipsy miner...
...they're all out-of-work miners working Almaden on their own time, faithfully sending, each man, a percentage of all he makes to the estate. Each pays a percentage to the silent man who owns the retorts, gives another percentage (50) to the cooker who retorts all the ore, keeps each man's cook separate, looks after it for him. . . . How gay they all are! . . . "We quit when we're tired or when we've made enough for that week," he said. There was an air of comradery, merriment, & rough heartiness that almost made...
...cinnabar & the four sacks which yielded a flask of "quick" were extremely unusual. Most of the men do well to make laborer's wages. Many do better occasionally. Sometimes they find such rich ore that to drill the highly volatile stuff is dangerous: the fumes. But again some miner will pick away for days in the all but airless devil's pocket & have hardly 50 pounds of rich ore to show...
Died. Emma Goldman, 70, famed anarchist; after long illness; in Toronto. Deported from the U. S. to Russia in 1919 with her lover and fellow radical, Alexander Berkman, she soon quit Russia, roamed the world, married a Welsh coal miner, briefly revisited...