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...foggy morning last week 17 convicts and two guards trudged out to a timber patch on a prison farm near Crockett, Tex. Suddenly Convict Joe Palmer dived head-first into a brushpile, came up with a .45 automatic in his hand. While he blazed at the guards two more convicts scooped two more guns out of the brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared...
...ging operations in northern Minnesota, I was 200 mi. from the point on Rainy River where International Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building of 200 miles of railroad...
...scorn was marked for the half timber & stucco dear to Milwaukee realtors...
...will doubtless be amused to learn of some of the business deals which have been offered to me since the story of my Russian business adventures appeared in TIME (Aug. 21). I have been offered land and tracts of timber in almost every state in the Union. Innumerable propositions have been made to me to participate in a great variety of businesses, ranging from breweries to perfumeries...
...Italy promises to swap fruit and olive oil for Austrian timber and machinery, and put this section of the agreement into immediate effect by signing a large order for Austrian lumber last week, ordering $100,000 worth of drilling machinery to help her ceaseless search for petroleum in Italy and Albania...