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...Salem, N. J., William McCausland, paymaster of Salem Glass Works, saved the company's $5,000 payroll when three thugs shot him, attempted to wrest the money-pouch away. He fell, rolled upon it. Workmen found him dead...
Last week from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.) came new and astonishing light on the Tramp Athlete. Eleven members of the freshman football squad appointed a spokesman-Carrol Robinson of Salem, N. J., crack tackle-to present to Coach James Ebenezer Pixlee their demands: that the wages which they earned as janitors, watchmen, waiters be given to them for spending money, that their board and tuition to which their earnings are normally applied be given them gratis. Coach Pixlee, unable to meet their requests, was considerably embarrassed when the cream of his team walked...
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...West by the Oregon Trail, hewed out a farm near Monroe. Aged 15, he chopped wood for a professorial neighbor who read him the Congressional Record, fired him with an ambition to sit in the House of Representatives. That ambition guided his early life. Graduated by Willamette University at Salem, Ore. (1884), he taught school, went on chautauqua circuits, made political friends. Aged 21, he married Anna M. Geisendorfer who bore him two sons, one daughter. (His son Cecil ("Stu"), chief road man for Texas Co., last summer set a New York-Los Angeles round trip automobile record...
...here a few weeks ago; then your editorial did not say too much. I was surprised they could get by with anything like it in N. C. and lots of people here hope they won't come back. If you are right stick to it. J. D. Long. Winston Salem...