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Early one morning last week a platoon of health & humane officers appeared at the widow's house. They were armed with water pipes, through which were passed looped wires. The men fought back the cats with the pipes, forced them, into corners, slipped the looped wires around their necks, dragged them out to a net in the yard. As each fighting cat was tossed into a wagon, neighbors leaning from windows cheered. Twenty-eight cats were captured this way. Only eight remained. The sun went down, another tomcat lost its freedom. Dusk fell, and with it two more tomcats...
...Veiled Prophet. In St. Louis last week, red, orange & blue buntings draped six miles of streets. Nineteen ornate floats passed through depicting "The Romance of Trade & Industry." In the most ornate of all sat the 52nd Veiled Prophet with his queen. Led by a platoon of mounted police the parade moved slowly, impressively, lit by the flare of torches. Next night in St. Louis' Coliseum the Veiled Prophet crowned Miss Ann Chittenden Ferris Queen of Love & Beauty. She is the daughter of President Henry T. Ferris of National Bank Co. of St. Louis. To her was given St. Louis' highest...
...platoon of police. bravely withstood a brick-&-umbrella charge from rioters behind the British Museum last week...
...Experiment. A call for Saxons to work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
Denouncing work under labor platoon conditions as "State slavery," Saxon Labor leaders demanded last week either "work at honest pay or an increase in the Dole...