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What happened then he never knew. With a mighty bang the whole locomotive exploded, tossing engineer and fireman 100 yards into a creek, catapulting the engine cab through the roof of a house. The entire boiler sailed up into the air and crashed down through the roof of the first coach. When the steam cleared, dead & dying lay sprawled in all directions. Com-pany officials said the boiler had seemed satisfactory when inspected last summer. Elkhorn-Piney Coal's score: dead, 16; injured...
Still in keeping with the general policy the old steel smoke-stack which previously helped to decorate the side of University Hall, has finally been removed. Smokeless since 1914, when use of the boiler plant in the basement of the building was discontinued, it had, nevertheless, remained a part of the Yard's scenery until this summer...
...pages, led the U. S. weekly field in display advertising. Current average is about twelve pages. Average staff is two men per paper. The editor-manager-printer is usually a youngster. He is expected to fill his sheet with personal notes and local news, is allowed little syndicated "boiler plate." If news is non-existent he may, in emergency, skip an issue, but must make it up some day because the law requires him to produce 52 issues a year. Sometimes he suddenly runs out of newsprint, telephones the home office for more, receives a rebuke for telephoning instead...
...horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...
...romance of "dragging the pageant of a bleading heart across Europe," will out with Shelley and Byron. Here is the simple case of an elderly utilities man and holding company magnet who "hit for the boiler" when things began to get to warm. For all the court intrigues,Greek women, tramp steamers, (but not even an airplane) it is evident that Insull himself is not a romantic person, such as some old Stuart Pretender or Confederate General. It is probable that the sympathy which he is getting in Chicago marks the surfeit of investigations, mud-slinging threats, and big-banker...