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...Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint of trade, its control of the two railroads was disestablished. Last week, with 23,063 shares of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and 28,557 shares of Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd. in its portfolio, Northern Securities board of directors proposed that the oldest railroad holding company be dissolved...
...French & Indian-fighting army at Crown Point, at the southern end of Lake Champlain. There he enlisted in Rogers' famed Rangers, just in time to join the heroic two months' march on and retreat from St. Francis, Canadian Indian village that had been the hornet-nest base for many a raid against the frontier settlements of New England...
...months after the Philadelphia wrestling match episode, Franklin was a guest at Ethel's debut at Owls Nest, the Du Ponts' Greenville, Del. home. He subsequently visited her there and at a summer place at North Harbor, Me. When they appeared together at other debuts in Boston and Philadelphia the same year, society columnists began to predict a match. "Absolutely untrue," snapped Father du Pont. Nevertheless, Franklin bought a roadster in Wilmington and gave his address as Owls Nest Road...
Next morning their platoon is sent over the top. Advancing through murk and mire, suffering heavy losses, they valiantly capture an Allied machine-gun nest only to be halted by news of the Armistice. Mutters one: "After four years-and it just fizzled...
...young Omaha lawyer, George M. Tunison, 30, arrived on the Shoshone reservation to determine heirships of Indian lands in litigation. He opened a hornets' nest when he innocently asked tribal elders how Arapahoes happened to be sharing the reservation. Lawyer Tunison took the Shoshones' case. From 1912 to 1927 he labored to persuade Congress to permit the Shoshones to sue the Government. From 1927 to 1933 he organized the case, presented it to the United States Court of Claims, which granted the Shoshones $2,500,000 in 1935. The Indians appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld their...