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...tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their names in grime upon their table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall. A dust storm 900 mi. wide, 1,500 mi. long swept out of the drought-stricken West. In dust-darkened Chicago excited Board of Trade brokers bid up wheat prices 5? in one day (the maximum), raised the price to 93? a bu.-up 17? in two weeks. That day 6,000 tons of finely divided wheat fields fell on Chicago's roofs and sidewalks...
...Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women. But the poverty-stricken eunuchs could neither marry nor pay. Clustering in their squalid club rooms last week, they squealed in outraged impotence...
...know of no reason why the Senate should strike from my hands the right to make a living for my family in a legitimate activity. I know of no reason why a poor man should be excluded from this body and the instrument by which he lives stricken from his hands...
...baseball team has been meeting with hard luck in its attempts to get its season under way. It was rained out in its first two scheduled games with Columbia and Pennsylvania, and now when the weather man seems ready to furnish baseball weather, Coach Fred Mitchell is stricken...
...will be a coachless Crimson team that opens its campaign against the Boston collegians, for Fred Mitchell, Varsity coach, was stricken yesterday with a back ailment, and will not be able to direct the play of his charges in their first two games...