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Gypsum-seller Shearer can tell these facts with authority having entered the industry in 1893. He shared in the origin of the U. S. Gypsum Co., perhaps the greatest concern of the industry. He was with the American Cement Plaster Co. for ten years. Then in 1923 he created the Universal Gypsum...
...nose out and prevent diversion of industrial alcohol for synthetic whiskies and gins; 3) 88 other sleuths to work with the American Railway Association in matching wits with shippers of beer who now, it seems, can baffle the shrewdest freight-masters by disguising their bubblesome liquid as lumber, cement, merchandise...
Died. Representative Lawrence J. Flaherty, 47, of California, onetime cement mason; at Washington, D. C., after an operation...
...years, efforts have been made by tree surgeons to prolong the life of the Agassiz elm. In 1910 the giant tree which measured a little less than ten feet in circumference at its base, showed signs of dry not around the roots and the ailing portions were reinforced with cement fillings. Later as the tree continued to lean more and more towards the museum, which was erected in 1901, wire braces were used in an effort to straighten it. The trunk which was badly torn when the tree was partially uprooted was almost completely rotted through...
...shower, looked on and listened. The Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio, the boys' band of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home gave musical selections. Representatives of many fraternal lodges to which the late President belonged deposited emblems of their orders in the steel casket set in the cement foundation. Then Mr. Dawes, with the very trowel which the Mason-President last used?at Ketchikan, Alaska, in laying the cornerstone of a masonic lodge?placed the marble slab in place...