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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1927, Page 4

ALINE COI.IjAP.SE. .SCDUURY (Ontario), Oct. 5. Tiit* .Mond Nickel Company's mine at Worthington. 30 miles from hero, collapsed this morning, wrecking hundreds of yards of the Canadian Pacific Railway and engulfing the railway station. If is understood that nnhody was hurt as the night shift had gone off duty and the day men had not gone deep into the mine. Fortunately they heard warning rumblings and escaped to the surface before the collapse occurred. The latest reports state that the Canadian Pacific Railway shops, the workships, and the engine round houso are settling in the huge depression that has been formed, and the telegraph wires have been cut down. The mine is 1,200 feet deep and is one of the company’s oldest workings. GINGER, AT.E ANT) HIP FLASKS. NEW FORK, Oct. 18. Prohibition’s latest victory is the verdict of the Supreme- Court permitting the authorities to ‘‘padlock” all cabarets where ginger ale and ice are served. Two well known cabarets in Chicago have been padlocked for this offence because the prohibitvm agents contended that clients ] our; 1 the contents of their hip lias’s ini their glasses of ginger ale and ice.

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