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...Police of Pennsylvania have been for years a cause of fury to union labor and organized liberals. Recruited to protect corporate property, their strong-arm work has on occasion become nationally notorious. Crowning brutality occurred two years ago when three Coal & Iron policemen quarreled with one John Barcoski, Polish miner, while he was on his way to work. They beat him, bent a poker over his head, left him dead. Two of the officers were convicted of manslaughter...
Twenty-nine years ago Jack Miner, owner of a small brick factory, thought of making his home comfortable for migrating birds. He had become interested in animals when as a young man he helped support his family by hunting for market. In 1904 he planted a few live decoys in a small pond near his brick factory, scattered ears of corn. Eleven ducks and geese came, spent a few weeks, flew away. The next year 32 arrived. Four years later he caught a duck, banded it to see if he could find out how far it flew in its migrations...
Then Jack Miner went into bird-banding enthusiastically. He constructed large nets to catch the ducks. His correspondence increased: people all over eastern North America were shooting his birds. He began to include a quotation from Scripture to make Miner ducks worth while. Returned tags were kept in a mink skin...
...spring of 1915 he built a goose trap, started to band the great wild Canadian goose. Naturalists knew that the Canadian goose flew into the North in the spring, but they needed more information about its nesting place, its migratory paths. In October, Jack Miner received word of his first banded goose. It had been shot by an Indian in unsurveyed territory in Hudson's Bay Co.'s district. Several years later Rev. W. G. Walton, Anglican missionary to northern Indians and Eskimos, returned to civilization for the first time in 30 years, went to Kingsville with...
...Miner, dean of the Harvard Dental School has announced that the School will give a series of dental clinic radio broadcasts over station WEEL beginning this Friday, January 30, at 6 o'clock, and continuing thereafter on Tuesdays and Fridays...