Word: overseer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Col. Collis' plan lor making run-overs easier to find is comprehensive and workmanlike, but hardly original. Witness that the Ionia (Mich.) County News used a somewhat similar system for several years.
Under this system jumps carried no heads but merely numbers. I enclose a sample from an issue of Sept. 17, 1931 to give you a better idea of how easy this made it to spot run-overs.
John Henry came from the Black River Country, "whar all de good rousterbouts comes I'm, an' de sun don't never shine.'' His birth was Gargantuan: he weighed 44 pounds, and as soon as he opened his mouth he called for lashings of victuals...
Once he took his troubles to an old witch woman. She gave him good advice: "You got to weary yo' life along, 'cause dat's de way hit turns out. You work and yo' back gits tired; you lay round hyar in de sun and shade...
Throughout the U. S. the Hip Sings and On Leongs shot and hatcheted each other in 1917, again in 1924. During the past few months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days...