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...still undetermined) from his employers, plus 15% of the stock issue in a new Rush Lake-Berwick firm to be called Joe Burke Gold Mines. Mining men last week guessed that he could get half a million dollars for his holdings, if he wanted to sell. Said Joe Burke: "Pot of gold...
...white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken pot...
...Elizabete's men, the wallowing wreck looked like a pot of gold. If they got her to port, approximately a third of the salvage award would be distributed among them according to rank (their owners taking the other two-thirds). The galley boy thought his share would be enough to buy an automobile and marry his Canadian sweetheart...
...poor woman without resources put a stone in the pot to feed her children, telling the kids to collect firewood and huff-puff for boiling. The kids did. The kids asked for food, and Mama said, 'Wait, wait and huff-puff more,' and the kids did. Later the kids poked the stone with a stick and found it very hard. The kids told Mama, 'You've said wait, wait and we are hungry.' So saying, they ran away, found food and never returned...
...prices. By the end of the long Independence Day holiday most people felt somewhat better. The big blow they had expected had not hit. The nation's economy had not been shaken to its roots; it had hardly been shaken at all. The dollar had not gone to pot.* No panicky buying had developed at any market level...