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Major William Kennelly, barrel-chested president of the New York Athletic Club, saw from his yacht a canoe upset in the wake of a Manhattan ferry, dived to the rescue of the floundering canoeist, one Don O'Reilly, saved his life...
...Niagara Falls, George E. Stathakis, Buffalo baker, wrapped himself in a pneumatic mattress, got into a steel & oak barrel, slid over the Horseshoe Falls. Next day his body was recovered...
Last week Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell rushed to the defense of the Jones Law, vigorously opposed any such change in the classification of liquor violations. He pointed out the "inexactness of definition" in the House bill, explained that "a 'single sale' includes a barrel as well as a pint," warned that such a divison of Prohibition offenses would make it doubly hard for the U. S. to prosecute under the Jones Law. He feared that the effect of such a bill would be to reduce the whole scale of Prohibition penalties. Wrote...
...tanker-is rapidly lifting her cargo of Venezuela crude. A muffled, methodical, pumping, pumping, pumping sound, and a shimmying, twelve-inch, flexible, metallic, rubber hose, extending overside from her pipe line on deck to a connection on the dock, is all that is evident as this 100,000-barrel monster serenely discharges herself of a valuable oil cargo, and pumps it into storage tanks on shore, from where it goes to the stills and eventually becomes...
...week she went down to the Battery to help the Army. She still actively bangs her tambourine in the corps of Yonkers, N. Y. To newsgatherers she related how her first U. S. convert was an unfortunate who, ejected from a saloon, had landed head down in an ash barrel. Peering over an improvised rostrum at a great throng she cried: "We began here 50 years ago, and always we'll go on. Hallelujah...