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...weeks ago, late one night, seven grimy miners toiled in the zinc-and spar-veined bowels of a mountain near Salem, Ky. With a surly roar, the wall of their tunnel collapsed behind them. Two men dashed for the shaft, shouting, "The cut's pullin', boys!" Another man, Roy James, could have escaped, but tore back the other way, through a foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through...
...Gannett's latest newspaper enterprise was far outside of New York State; was, in fact, way down across the Mason Dixon Line. Many people did not realize what Mr. Gannett was up to, by heading a syndicate to buy the Twin City Sentinel, biggest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. But those who did realize, said: "Well, that just shows you Frank Gannett's vision. He may operate in the Finger Lakes but not by rule of thumb...
...commercial project was seen in the fact that the films are to be made in co-operation with the National Education Association. School authorities in ten cities are to assist- in New York, Rochester, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, Springfield (or Newton), Macs., Atlanta and Winston-Salem, N. C. Dr. Thomas Edward Fin- egan, chairman of the National Education Association's committee on visual education, has been conferring with a committee that in- cluded Dr. John Huston Finley of Manhattan, Superintendent William A. McAndrew of Chicago, Commissioner Payson Smith of Massachusetts...
...South. Blushingly he conceded that "all this sounds like the dull booming of a local Chamber of Commerce." Then, full-throated, he said, "The astounding thing is that the figures of the Birmingham growth and development, of Atlanta's march ahead, of the strides in the Winston-Salem and Durham districts, check up. The claims made cannot be discounted nor the statements of the extraordinary expansion refuted. The rise in Birmingham's population from 35,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1926 tells the story better perhaps than anything else...
...were included among the "minutemen" of the Revolutionary War. Crispus Attucks, Negro, was one of the first four soldiers to shed blood in behalf of U. S. liberty. Southern Aristocrat Jefferson openly opposed slavery; Henry Laurens, George Wythe, George Mason, George Washington tacitly did likewise. At Bunker Hill, Peter Salem, Negro, achieved distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat...