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Last week, the elders of Merion having decided to allow a row of cheap houses to be built near this park, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, president of the foundation that owns park, art and building, threatened to move the pictures to the Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan, or wherever else they might be properly appreciated, and to fill the limestone edifice with Negroes in the process of being cultivated. The elders of Merion reconsidered their longing for a row of cheap houses...
...shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif to his ranch, on the theory that two can starve as cheap...
There are parts of "The Allinghams" which are curious mixtures of the old fashioned and the modern. Thus Angle, who of all the children is probably the most interesting and the most human, finds herself in a position which might have been transferred wholly from some cheap melodrama, but she conducts herself as regards her dilemma with the primitiveness of a Sherwood Anderson creation, not only challenging the world but challenging it with a barbaric splendor. Likewise with the tone of the entire book; its actual period is the nineties of the last century but its spirt and menner...
That Ford Motor Co. proposes to produce a gearshift car very soon. The basis for this rumor is the Ford inquiry made to equipment manufacturers about the prices of new, special machinery. That Ford Motor Co. plans to make a cheap six-cylinder car. This idea Ford officials have flatly denied. That motor car manufacturers this year will seek to buy up or at least control the tire manufacturers who supply original equipment. The logic of this is sound; the motor maker with a tire subsidiary cuts his costs. Ford Motor Co. is already making a great share...
Next day, one Jean Henri Baptiste Brieux, son of a poor kiosk woman, entered several shops where religious knick-knacks were on sale, seized and dashed upon the ground some two dozen cheap plaster figurines of the Blessed Virgin. Arrested, he explained: "In revenge for 30 copies of La Vie Parisienne and nine of Le Sourire seized from my mother and torn up by the Abbé Bethlehem, I smashed a few of those idolatrous images sold by the accomplices of priesthood. They seem to me fully as poisonous to the soul as any magazine my mother ever sold...