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...rise of wheat prices, if it continues, or even if it is but sustained, leads to a whole chain of circumstances. It means much better times in the farming region of the Northwest. It means much improvement in banking conditions, because banks will be able to liquidate their frozen farm loans. It may mean the difference between success and failure to the newly-organized, tremendous cooperative grain marketing project of the farmers. It means greater revenues for the Northwestern railroads and their stockholders...
...Brough, England, the American world fliers refitted their planes. Pontoons and new engines were installed in preparation for the final dash across the Atlantic by way of the Orkney Islands, Iceland and Greenland, to Labrador. By Monday all preparations were complete, and the fliers waited only for the chain of U. S. naval vessels, commanded by Admiral Thomas P. Magruder, to take up their positions. The cruiser Milwaukee reached Nova Scotia to make maps of the region over which they will pass; the Danish steamer Gertrude Rask smashed through the ice to Greenland to carry supplies for them...
Money continues cheap, and industry continues in poor shape, except in a few departments, such as chain stores and utilities. Railroads, although earnings are showing a tendency to decline temporarily, are daily more cheerful over their prospects. Yet through all this there is an unusual dearth of novel or sensational news...
...care to make any but the best shoes, and consequently closed all but one factory, and shifted to a retail shoe business whose home, known as "Benedict's Shoe Store," became one of the local landmarks. Recently even this establishment was closed, presumably under competition with chain retail stores and other modern factors...
Despite the strongest chain of evidence of premeditated murder, Mme. Caillaux was acquitted by a jury, after a sensational trial?apparently upon the novel ground that if the doctors called in to attend Calmette had given him the proper treatment he would not have died. Meanwhile, Joseph Caillaux had stood for reëlection and was once more a Deputy in Paris...