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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...value of the books, described as little more than an ordinary encyclopedia, which the man thus sold, is estimated at several thousand dollars...
From the coal mine town of Bradford, Ala., last week came a unique tale of lynching. According to Special Officer F. L. Brittain of the Alabama By-Products Corp., which runs Bradford's mines, a mob of "several thousand Negroes" gathered outside a beer parlor called the "Bloody Bucket," accused two white men of assaulting a Negro woman in a wood near the "Bloody Bucket," threatened to lynch them...
Last week, as a result of the Valles outbreak, Cardenas discarded his gingerly stand, made his first big move to crack down on Cedillo. Four thousand Federal reinforcements were ordered to move into the State. At the same time in Mexico City, Government officers swooped down on a clandestine radio station, allegedly operated by a Cedillo agent...
...thousand 12-oz. wine bottles, duly corked and sealed, bobbed placidly this summer on the rolling bosom of the Pacific. Only too glad was the California State Fisheries Laboratory, which released them from its ship the Bluefin, to have lucky fishermen find them floating in the deep. For the bottles which contained not wine but sand and a return postcard, were released to test the ocean drift which carries the pelagic eggs and larvae of sardines. Last week it was reported that only 150 bottles had been found. The farthest traveler had drifted 400 miles south, to Lower California...
...reader at his case, to "make him feel at home," and to this end the room was comfortably furnished and attractively draped, and red tape was reduced to a minimum. No elaborate card-catalogues or "systems" were employed, and the nucleus of what is now a collection of five thousand volumes, was placed on the shelves alphabetically by authors. Book marks were placed on the tables to encourage the reader to come in again and pick up where he had left off. By these means the room has become an infinite source of pleasure to the men who have come...