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...there was a solution: diversification of the province's industries. In 1912 provincial boundaries were redrawn and Manitoba, which had been known as the "Postage Stamp Province," unrolled 500 miles northward to Hudson Bay. Adventurers and prospectors had already discovered copper and gold, trapped beaver, muskrat and wild mink...
Vincente Gonzalez Pardo, grandson of Peru's onetime president Manuel Pardo, and ex-Wife Ruth Piper Hollingsworth Foran Chatfield Pardo (four husbands) were sued in Manhattan by Hattie Carnegie Inc. for unpaid bills Wife Ruth had run up between the separation and divorce. A few items: a mink coat, $6,050; an ermine hat, $110; three nightgowns, $240; two beaded bags, $302.50. Grand total...
...dusk local peace officers had persuaded some of the white men to go home and had jailed two who were drunk and particularly loud. But in blacked-out Mink Slide the rumors still hummed behind closed doors: the white men were coming...
Sure enough, white men came-but not looking for trouble. The police chief and three patrolmen ventured to look over the tinderbox Mink Slide district. A panicky Negro opened fire. For an instant, Mink Slide was loud with gunfire. All four policemen were hit by buckshot...
Minutes later, state highway patrolmen and guards were burning the roads to Columbia. At dawn the patrolmen moved into Mink Slide, smashed its stores, pulled quaking Negroes out of the miserable buildings. As their Tommy guns blazed, one Negro was seriously shot (see cut)', the patrolmen beat others, then marched them off to jail...