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...write frankly of Mr. O'Neill for the reason that the spectacle of soiled fingers searching a dead man's chest for fleas does not intrigue us. But it is perfectly all right for those who like that sort of thing...
...Soiled fingers searching a dead man's chest for fleas...
...Brine announces that he will hold a competition, open to all Harvard men, in which the object is to guess the total number of square inches of material used in the shirt in its finished form. The man who comes nearest to the size of the colossal chest drapery will receive as a prize three free shirts with collars. Second prize will be two shirts and third prize one shirt...
...come to Prudence at the rate of about 500 a day. From four to eight assistants are kept busy answering the letters. They are equipped with leaflets of advice on many subjects which can be used as the main part of many answers-leaflets on Party Suggestions, on Hope Chest and Trousseau, on Baby's Welfare-Diets up to 2 Years, on Reducing Weight-Diets and Baths, on Lifting Sagging Face, on Restoring Gray Hair. The whole gamut of human affairs from the cradle to the coffin is provided for in good advice. And in one year of this...
...asserted that action similar to New York's was threatened in ten states: Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, Missouri, Nevada, Louisiana. To meet this condition the convention resolved to raise a war chest of $2,580,000. General Superintendent Baker declared : " We are prepared to match their (the Wets') strength dollar for dollar...