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Over at Popes Creek a fleetlet of oystermen were dredging the river mechanically, in open violation of the Maryland law which, to protect seedlings, forbids oyster gathering except by hand tongs. Sheriff Cooksey and his men sneaked their launches into Popes Creek, surrounded the poachers, captured...
...left in darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake Bay, grounded in Pocomoke Sound, was "lost" for 24 hours...
Died. Edwin Gould, 67, second son of the late famed Financier Jay Gould; of heart failure; in Oyster...
Sublimed Gould In Oyster Bay, L. I. one evening last week Edwin Gould, 67, after a quiet game of bridge with wife and friends, went to his room, began to undress, suddenly cried out. Thus, as it must to all men, Death came-before his wife could reach his side -to the second son of famed Jason (Jay) Gould. Day later an announcement was inserted in the Manhattan Press: "With those 'forces for good' grief stricken at the death of Edwin Gould stands the Harlem Eye & Ear Hospital, thanking God for the life of this patron saint...
...child laborers whose use had got him in trouble. Canning and food packing compose another industry which will have to purge itself of child labor when it brings its code to Washington for approval. Children are extensively used in the cheaper shrimp and oyster canneries along the Gulf Coast. They stand on wet, sloppy floors working at long tables until their backs are about to break. Because their product is perishable they are worked night & day at top speed. When Federal inspectors come around, the lights suddenly go out of commission...