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...Bone of contention was an old one. A group of real estate taxpayers complained that nearly 15 billion dollars worth of personal property in Cook County had not been assessed. The County's personal property tax. nominally levied on cash, stocks, bonds and other forms of wealth, is regarded by most Chicagoans as a ridiculous nuisance to be shrugged off. It was no laughing matter, however, to Judge Jarecki. "Barely one-half of the taxable property of Cook County has found its way into the assessment roll," he stormed. "Can it be maintained that an assessment so flagrant...
...started to get back into his car. His chauffeur, volubly expostulating in Japanese, tried to save the situation. But into the tonneau after Consul Chamberlain piled the Japanese sentries, pulled off his fur hat and savagely beat his face, gashing the skin of his nose and forehead until bone showed white through the red, dripping wounds. When the sentries had done with Consul Chamberlain they departed grinning. Friends of Consul Chamberlain were relieved to learn that after his face had been disinfected and bandaged he was able to catch the next train from Mukden to Harbin...
...side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter house. A Pennsylvania packing company bought...
...stillness of the night a few smouldering embers lie red against the black of night. A faint smell of smoke drifts by on the summer wind. A little dog sniffs about in the ashes to salvage a hastily remembered bone and walls out as his nose strikes live coals. On the other side of the lake hidden in the timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied...
Died. Lya de Putti, 32, high-born Hungarian stage and film actress (Variety, The Heart Thief, Made In France); of pneumonia after an operation to remove a chicken bone from her throat; in Manhattan...