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...handsome, excessively rugged individualist named George Plummer Mc-Near Jr. bought the bankrupt Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad for $130,000 down (price: $1,300,000). The road had one great asset-transcontinental freight trains used it to get around Chicago...
...night last week, McNear's rugged individualism boomeranged. As he strolled near his home in Peoria, somebody murdered him with a single shotgun blast. At week's end there were few clues, but $41,615 in rewards...
...Labor Department lists three older strikes: California redwood workers (September 1945); textile workers at the Gaffney Mfg. Co., Gaffney, S. C. (September 1945); seven railroad unions at the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad (October...
...Then a Caterpillar office man, who married a Chenoa girl and lives in Peoria, who came here to attend a funeral, told me he saw the item, as he shook hands. Then there was the principal of the high school at Bellflower; a paper salesman from Bloomington; and several relatives and friends who dropped me notes. These are but a few of the comments I heard...
Western Reserve is the first opponent scheduled, and the meeting will take place on December 27. Other points on route include Indianapolis, home of Indiana Central, on December 30; Peoria, Ill., where a game with Bradley Tech comprises New Year's Eve festivities; and Pittsburgh on January 2, with Westminster facing the Crimson...