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...quarter-mile mark in 57.5 seconds, Anderson tried to take the lead, but Bright prevented him from doing so by increasing the pace somewhat. These two continued to stay in front and with two laps to go were trailed by Tom Carroll of Yale, Bruce Lockerbie of N.Y.U., Fred Montour of Michigan, and Olympic quarter-mile champion Charlie Jenkins...
...Elmira, N.Y., sharp-eyed readers of the Elmira Star-Gazette noticed two unsettling ads in the classified section: 1) "Sausage stuffer wanted; phone Montour Falls 4986." and 2) "Paying up to $6 for standing horses, up to $6 for disabled cows and horses; dead animals removed free of charge; call collect 4986, Montour Falls Rendering Works...
...connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every mile post (TIME, Oct. 23). A Federal Court ruled that the Montour spur was no common carrier but a private Mellon carrier, used only by Pittsburgh Coal...
...this spur that would cut the cost of coal in the Mahoning Valley 40? a ton. The laborers stopped to read some notices posted overnight by a U. S. marshal. No work was done that clay or the next or the next. The notices were a temporary injunction commanding Montour R. R. to cease & desist from all construction. Though few of the construction gang knew it, their work was halted by President Atleroury of Pennsylvania R. R. and his chief competitor, President William-son of New York Central. And the laborers were probably equally ignorant of the fact that...
Divided among the Big Four as connecting lines are Lehigh & New England (a "bridge route"), Montour, Pittsburgh & West Virginia, Monongahela. Trackage rights here & there and joint terminal facilities complete the plan...