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...train ran until three weeks ago. Then a locomotive chuffed out with a few cars. There was a rock-throwing fracas; a picket was shot at and wounded. A few days later, shotgun pellets ripped through a picket's shanty. Nobody...
...their strike boss G. F. Brown, the pickets ran to their automobiles, sped east on U.S. Route 24, which parallels the T.P. & W.'s tracks, and soon passed the rolling train. At Eureka the strikers parked near the tracks. As the caboose passed, they threw rocks and stones. Shotgun blasts roared from the train. No picket...
...bleak Nichol Island, off Nova Scotia's east coast, a lone white house stands above the rocky shoreline. One day last fortnight Lightkeeper James Richard Hutt, 33, picked up his shotgun, set off down the shore to add some ducks and rabbits to the family larder. By dusk he had not returned. His slight, dark-haired wife, Pauline, climbed the steep steps of the lighthouse tower, and lit the twin wicks herself...
Between such spasms they ran the Sells-Floto Circus, beat the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News into grogginess, forced Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather...
Leave Him to Heaven. In Oklahoma City, Bible-reading Isaac Coker, annoyed by the "rantin' religion" of a next-door prayer meeting, blazed away with a shotgun, wounded the preacher, who refused to prosecute Coker, since "the Lord will punish...