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...pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went to Africa alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...
Subsequently the first two such dealers were recommended for the Board and their own acceptance was this week announced by E. G. Wilmer, Chairman. They were C. M. Bishop, General Manager of Bishop, McCormick & Bishop of Brooklyn, and F. S. Albertson, President of the Albertson Motor Co. of Los Angeles. Both are "original" Dodge dealers, hard workers, good salesmen, thoughtful businessmen...
...present age, Ananias may enjoy a religious resurrection more premature than that premised nineteen centuries ago. For the oracular omniscience from Brooklyn has placed a syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
Boomerang. "He has shown us the art of giving." At a celebration tendered to Dr. S. Parkes Cadman on the 25th anniversary of his pastorate, at the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, Trustee Frederick W. Rowe said these words and extended a check for $25,000, a personal gift from every family in the Church to their pastor and his wife. For the term 1924-28, Dr. Cadman is President of the Federal Council of Churches, succeeding Dr. Robert E. Speer...
...stocks in Abbots-Alderney Dairies, Inc., James Butler Grocery Co., Economy Stores Corp., Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc., National Dairy Products Corp., Reid Ice Cream Corp., U. S. Stores Corp. It may keep its shares in Tellings-Belle Vernon (dairy products), Cleveland; H. C. Bohack Co. (chain stores), Brooklyn; First National Stores, New England; Detroit Creamery Co.; David Pender Grocery Co., Virginia; U. S. Dairy Products Corp. of Philadelphia; and non-voting stock in U. S. Stores Corp. and James Butler Grocery...