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...since President Harrison flung open the Oklahoma Indian Territory has the U. S. seen anything like what it will see next week when Prohibition is stricken from the Constitution. On that April morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters...
...Polo when the mortgage was foreclosed. In 1922, year before he left the Moline Plow Co., he and Hugh Johnson wrote a pamphlet called Equality for Agriculture which, like the later McNary-Haugen bill, permitted the farmer to grow all he could, setting up a Federal agency to dump surpluses abroad. That was his debut as an agrarian agitator. In 1926 Mr.. Peek became chairman of the Committee of 22 of the North Central States Agricultural Conference. As a mem ber of this body he buttonholed Congressmen for two years, trying to pound home his ideas on farm relief...
This was a threat that no railroadman (except the heads of the seven key roads) could ignore- particularly Daniel Willard, whose efficient and progressive B. & O. Messrs. Prince & Barriger planned to dump into the lap of its big rival, Pennsylvania. Last week at a Baltimore banquet, Lawyer John J. Cornwell, onetime Governor of West Virginia and now B. & O.'s general counsel, told the world what was going through Daniel Willard's long head. "This so-called Prince plan . . . is destructive in every phase except as to the interests of the seven big railroads in the country...
Fear that the economic struggle might lead to war caused British, Indian and Japanese delegates to meet at Simla in September for a secretive Cotton Conference at which haggling continued last week. Japan, hampered but not hamstrung, has continued to dump. Last week, according to the figures in Minister Nakajima's hands, Japan had outstripped Britain in cotton cloth exports for the first time in history. In the first eight months of this year Japan exported 1,392,000,000 square yards. Britain 1,386,000,000. Since Britain has reigned for a century and more as the world...
Lynn's plague of crickets began in August. Never before had the town heard such nocturnal stridulation, never before had such hosts of shiny, self-assured intruders appeared out of floor chinks, clothes closets, rugs, pantries and cellars. Lynn's fire department, called out to purge the dump whence the cricket hosts seemed to emanate, was repeatedly baffled. Professional exterminators say that the only way to get rid of crickets is to feed them bits of fish or vegetables coated with chemicals, chiefly arsenic. Crickets are guzzlers of beer and sweetened vinegar, may be trapped and drowned...