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Extra trains ran to Manhattan for the 28th National Automobile Show. The motor makers had spoken well, well in advance. President W. S. Knudsen of Chevrolet Motor Co. presented the new line of Chevrolets; Chairman Roy Dike-man Chapin* of Hudson-Essex had made the first offer of a 6-cylinder four-door sedan to sell in the $800 class?the Essex at $795. President Edward G. Wilmer of Dodge Bros, spent more than $67,000 to hire Will Rogers, Fred & Dorothy Stone and Paul Whiteman's Orchestra to entertain over the radio and incidentally to announce Dodge Bros...
...28th annual International Live Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
There is also an Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, for Negroes. Improved Elkdom was embroiled last week in legal proceedings over where it would hold its 28th annual Grand Lodge sessions next year, white Elks in Manhattan having prevailed upon black Elks to forgo meeting there as planned...
...October 28th last the Harvard Glee Club extended to the Yale Glee Club an invitation to participate in the third concert of the Harvard Glee Club's annual Symphony Hall series for 1927-1928. The management of the Yale Glee Club accepted this invitation on November 8th. Since that time no definite plans have been made. It is enough to state that the concert will take place in April, 1928, and that both organizations will participate in joint numbers as well as in groups selected from their own programmes. Philip E. Lawrence '27, Manager of the Harvard Glee Club...
...Manhattan, Plasterers Paul Biejan and Seamons Fogler were seriously injured last week when a workman on a building under construction on 28th street, dropped near them a bottle of banana oil, which exploded...