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...suit brought by the banking firm of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. (of Manhattan) against the Alien Property Custodian and the banking firm of Delbruck, Shickler & Co. (of Berlin). The $148.28 was owing to the Manhattan firm by. the Berlin firm before the War. The Manhattan firm wished to collect the debt at the pre-War rate of exchange and with interest to the sum of $20.40. The Berlin firm agreed that the Manhattan firm was entitled to its claim, but argued that the German Government should pay the claim, since the German bankers were not responsible for the War and should...
Miss Mabel Vogel, of the Winnetka, Ill., public library, seeing what a business it is for parents and teachers to find the right reading for the young idea, enlisted teachers in 35 cities to collect ballots from 36,700 school children and enable her to make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared...
...public fancy. The enfant gate of suburban London, the treasure of America must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright leaves while bastard epigrams evince a quick decay...
Scientific reports contain the localities where rock paintings have been found, but hundreds of others, known only to individuals, are not available for scientific information. The Forum has undertaken to collect information on all such paintings, and Dr. Free urges that all persons knowing of such paintings and inscriptions communicate with The Forum. Scientists will investigate the more important ones and endeavor to gain historical information by deciphering the inscriptions and interpreting the paintings...
...members of the Cooperative Society will have their first opportunity to collect their dividends today. The dividends, which are calculated on a basis of the amount of purchases made throughout the past year, will be paid upon presentation of membership cards, it was announced last night...