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...long string of freight cars out along its lakefront line to serve as a snow fence. The city's milk supply was sharply reduced while suburbanites subsisted on canned goods. Lifelines had to bo stretched on Michigan Avenue. One snow-blinded man was blown to death under a bus before the Drake Hotel. Nine other deaths were somehow attributed to the storm. The Sells-Floto Circus came to town from its winter headquarters at Peru. Ind., at the height of the blizzard. In the New York Central yards, 200 men tussled with half-crazed lions, tigers, monkeys, elephants, camels...
...Virginia which has no anti-hitch-hiking law occurred just the sort of thing U. S. motorists have been told may happen if they pick up strangers. Charles Latham of Manhattan, driving out of Knoxville, Tenn., gave a ride to a stranger who said he was a jobless bus operator. Latham let him spell him at the wheel. Suddenly the stranger flipped out a revolver, shot Latham through the side. When Latham attempted to jump from the car, the stranger ordered him back, beat him over the head, drove the car on to Christiansburg, Va., where he escaped. Passing motorists...
...Adopted a resolution appropriating $300,000 toward restoration of the frigate Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). ¶ Passed a bill raising Lieut.-Commander Joel Thompson Boone, physician to President Hoover, to captain's rank and pay. ¶ Passed a bill to put interstate bus traffic under the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...Discussed a bill to regulate interstate motor bus traffic...
Hotel workers, men acting as bellboys, desk clerks, night watchmen, bus-boys, and waiters, earned one-seventh of the total amount last season. The number of men securing hotel jobs has been steadily increasing, and such work has seemed to many men both profitable and enjoyable. Musicians can usually find employment in hotels, but the requirements are strict...