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...Detroit the Colonial Department Store advised that it would exchange clothing for farm produce: a dress, bag, hat, shoes, for 3 bbl. of salted Saginaw Bay herring; three boys' suits, three pr. shoes, one dress for a 500 Ib. sow; assorted merchandise for 50 crates of eggs or 180 Ib. of honey...
...smaller depositors. The Ford company refused to make such an agreement and the result was the necessity of a moratorium. . . . Unless it had been declared, the larger depositors who were informed in advance would have withdrawn their money and left the smaller ones 'holding the bag'. ... I understand that the deposit of the Ford company . . . was about...
...dapper, slightly-stooped man who stood with a little black bag in his hand, ringing the elevator bell on the tenth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Vanderbilt one afternoon last week was nervous. Everything was in order in the room he had left. Trunks were packed with costumes, photographs, stacks of letters bound with rubber bands brittle with age. There remained to distinguish the hotel room from hundreds of others ready to be abandoned only a photograph of big-chested Enrico Caruso in a white-piped vest and a little bronze head which Caruso had made of himself...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza who had made his debut as manager of the Scala in Milan the night Scotti first sang there 34 years ago. Then he went upsteps to a dingy dressing-room, locked the door, took pictures of his long-dead father and mother from the little black bag and sat them down before a mirror. Slowly he smeared his face with yellow paint, donned a snakey-cued China-man's wig. For that last afternoon he had chosen to sing in Franco Leoni's L'Oracolo, a one-act opera, second rate to be sure...
Died. William ("Kid") Gleason. 67. oldtime second baseman on the famed Baltimore Orioles ("I'd let 'em slide to the bag, then kick 'em and slap the ball down on their conks"); of heart trouble; in Philadelphia. After exposure of the sale of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati...