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...basis of the evidence printed elsewhere in this paper, evidence which is supported by the unanimous opinion of students who were present at the time of the so-called riot Friday night, two points became very clear. In the first place there was no riot until wagon lands of police charged the crowd with drawn nightsticks in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it. In the second place, even had there been a riot the choice of methods made by the police was bad. There...
Died. Loton Horton, 72, President, Sheffield Farms Co., Chairman of Board, National Dairy Products Co. (world's largest dairy firm); in Nice, France; of pneumonia. He started life driving a milk wagon for his uncle...
...could his factories, equipment and men make out of grain? They could and do make "Bevo," near beer, ginger ale, root beer, malt extracts, food tonics, grape drinks, starch, glucose, syrups; live stock and poultry foods from the grain residues; yeast, which is rapidly becoming an important product. His wagon works he re-arranged so that it could make motor truck and bus bodies. His cabinet workers who used to make bar fixtures were idle. He set them to making cabinets for ice cream par lors. His refrigerating engineers devised a refrigerated motor truck and compact drug store coolers...
...Tewfik Rushdi Bey gone, M. Tchitcherin, still less communicative, tarried not in Odessa. Bundled up as usual because of his uncertain health, he hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third...
...prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon. It took its name from the vehicle-the predecessor of the modern freight car-which carried freight in the 1790's from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...