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Merger in Meriden. For over 100 years Charles Parker Co. of Meriden, Conn., has made hardware specialties and since the Civil War, the famed Parker shotgun. Last fortnight the company expanded by acquiring the business of Artistic Bronze Co. of Bridgeport, manufacturer of refrigerator accessories, builders' hardware, art lamps...
Sheriff Lainson deputized 100 Council Bluffs citizens at $3.50 per day each, armed them with baseball bats and pick handles after one Claude Dail had been accidentally killed while being instructed in the operation of an automatic shotgun. Sent out to Route 34 to break up the principal picket line, deputies jostled the strikers around indecisively, cluttered the highway, halted trucks, witlessly helped the strike...
...Ohio, meet ten miles north of Dayton at a village called Vandalia. At Vandalia are the $100,000 grounds of the Amateur* Trapshooting Association of America, where, late every August, with eleven freight carloads of clay targets (made of sand and plaster of Paris) and $32,000 worth of shotgun shells, are held the most important trapshooting events in America. The Vandalia firing line is nearly a mile long. Shooters fire in squads of five over 27 traps, each manned by a corps of trap loaders, pullers, referees, scorers, with expert accountants in the manager's office to keep track...
Died. Raymond D. Little, 52, publisher, sportsman, onetime (1906) Davis Cup tennist, with Gustave F. Touchard national doubles champion in 1911; by his own hand (shotgun) in Manhattan...
Finally a pistol battle took place in the publishing plant of Berlin's world-famed Socialist daily Vorwdrts ( Forward!"). Shooting from behind their presses, Socialist pressmen repulsed invading Fascists who, however, severely-wounded two pressmen. Later a sniper concealed in the Vorwarts building pointed a shotgun at Fascists marching past in the street, squeezed the trigger, badly wounded one Fascist...