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Opened in London, last week, but not yet patronized by the Royal Family, was a "Public Inhalatorium." Poor persons with colds may pay tuppence (4¢) to sit in a large chamber inhaling beneficial gases. Individuals of the middle classes will doubtless choose to pay two shillings (48¢) for a booth in which they may sniff privately...
...Baldwin!" cried the attendant at the doll booth, "You must guess. Please, you really must!" and the eyes of the attendant, a blooming, wholesome girl, twinkled, danced...
Tracy Drake, boniface of the smart Drake and Blackstone Hotels, Chicago, protested, last week, against a new action of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to cut commissions on income from public booth phones. Said Mr. Drake: "We're all slaves of the monopolistic telephone company. You know we have to pay the loss on bad slugs." To which, William D. Bangs, general counsel for the telephone company, queried: "Is it possible that the clientele of the Blackstone and the Drake should drop bad slugs in the phones...
Commander Evangeline Booth was sent to take up the work...
...Tradesmen in the neighborhood of the Southwold cottage stated that General Booth assumes the name "Bernard" when retiring there for rest. When Salvation Army members visit him they take off their uniforms, appear in plain street clothes...