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...potential employers. The tactics of our legislative bodies, however, especially in the matter of additional depressing taxes which are being loaded on that group, remind me of a sheepherder I once saw trying to train a dog. He kept shouting "Come here, you so-and-so" while he threw rocks...
...Bill" set out from Sydney in the famed old Southern Cross to fly the stormy Tasman Sea to Wellington, N. Z. Halfway across, the starboard propeller broke off, part of a motor fell into the sea. With the other two motors sputtering, the ship lost altitude rapidly. Sir Charles threw 14,000 lb. of freight overboard, then 34,000 pieces of Jubilee mail. When the Southern Cross continued falling, Sir Charles sent out an SOS, added: "Port motor gone now. . . . Afraid...
...tremendous kick out of that." Also very much on hand was big, beefy Colonel Jacob Ruppert, ably pressagented brewer and baseball tycoon, who contributed $20,000 and some beer to the $1,500,000 Byrd Expedition and had his name put on the supply ship which the Government threw...
...Cleveland, when his five-year-old son butted into a quarrel between drunken Sam Lovelace and his wife, Father Lovelace threw a hatchet at the child. Baby Lovelace picked it up, returned the throw ten feet, fracturing his father's skull...
Finish. In Los Angeles, one Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, threw two 200-lb. beer kegs in the air and caught them with one hand, permitted three men to stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which...