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...Pittsfield, Mass., three years ago, Rose Messel went to pick blackberries. Her escort, Harold Plant, pushed her off a steam shovel; James P. Mahon and Louis Stasker slashed Harold Plant, were put in prison. Ralph Green and Ralph Thomas later clubbed Harold Plant, claimed that the parents of Rose Messel had urged them to do so. Ralph Green, Ralph Thomas, Rose Messel's father and mother went to prison. Rose Messel's father became insane, was removed to a lunatic asylum. Last week, a cripple, Rose Messel died...
...Other U. S. institutes and associations are many, include: American Macaroni Manufacturers' Association, American Shovel Institute, Ash Handle Association. Association of Limb Manufacturers of America, Better Bedding Alliance of America, Canadian Newsprint Association (see p. 19), Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, Copper Institute, Corset and Brassiere Association of America...
...Francisco, John Coylson, tramp, was offended when arrested for cooking a stew in the big dipper of an idle steam shovel...
...continued, an average of 30 bodies were received each day. After six days the unburied bodies totalled 249. Cemetery officials hastily collected strikebreakers. Many of them, kept ignorant of the nature of the work, quit when they found out. One man, who went to the cemetery with a steam shovel, left when he discovered he was strikebreaking. But 150 willing breakers dug 200 foot ditches to receive the caskets when the cemetery vaults (capacity 600) should be full...
...Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows...