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...fashioned high-wheel bicycles accounted for the appearance in last week's news of George Washington in a striking state of undress. Noting a sudden public interest in the "bone-shakers" of the 1860s, United Pressman Frederick Othmann took up his hat and went over to Washington's Smithsonian Institution to research...
More significant than local tussles were results in three state-wide campaigns. By only a slim margin Oregon rejected a proposition backed by the Grange to put the State into the power business. In Washington voters approved (2-to-1) the Bone Power Bill which authorizes municipalities to acquire power properties outside their corporate limits. Thus Seattle's plan of buying the $100,000,000 Puget Sound Power & Light Co. is now legally possible. In Minnesota the citizens endorsed public-ownership by re-electing Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Olson...
...guard suddenly became aware of one Joe Fatigate, 25, habitual brawler, at the far end of the hall. From Joe Fatigate's forehead projected the bone handle of a penitentiary table knife. The 4-in. blade of the knife was neatly buried within the man's brain...
Early this year the Medical Society of New York County suspended Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee because the doctors believed that this famed bone surgeon had unethically helped the Seaboard Air Line Railway to publicize his big new sanatorium at Venice, Fla. (TIME, May 21). Dr. Albee denied the charge, claimed that the county society had no real evidence against him, brought suit in a civil court for reinstatement...
...since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which geologists unanimously condemned as bone dry. On Oct. 4, 1930 he brought in a gusher. Today the Texas Railroad Commission, which attempts to control the flood, estimates that if each & every one of the 14,000 wells in the East Texas Field were opened wide for one hour, they would produce more oil than the whole...