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...offset such monopolies by substitutes?nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen, rubber from carbohydrates, camphor from coal tar, coffee (Postum) from barley and wheats. There are no substitutes for potash or iodine. Yet chemists are already getting a little potash from the U. S. low-grade deposits along the Mexican border, iodine from seaweed and kelp...
...what the eleven States of the South, with 124 electors, are to the Democracy. They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States...
...Three Frenchmen crossed the Franco-Italian border. Italian border guards, speaking Italian, stopped them, asked for credentials. The Frenchmen, speaking French, presented them. The guards, leeming their words derogatory to the regime of Signor Benito Mussolini, arrested them; fined two, imprisoned...
...Italian attention was focussed with little pleasure upon French military activities near the Italian border, in the Department of Haute Savoie. Crack infantry and artillery drilled, saluted, climbed mountains. The Berlin press saw a French menace to Italy...
...Wallack's Theatre in Manhattan, called by a punster "the flophouse" because of the many failures it has housed, opened last week a piece called Guns. The first act was laid in a speakeasy in Manhattan, the second in a speakeasy in Chicago, the third at the Mexican border. Charlie O'Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined O'Connor...