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...little dancing bubbles wherewith the Liquid Carbonic Co. tickles the palates of a vast public of U. S. soda-drinkers, there arises something besides carbon dioxide gas. Sparkling behind these bubbles is a personality, the personality of handsome, dark-haired Bertha Baur, née Duppler, who last week sold her Liquid Carbonic holdings for $4,000,000. She was a typist on LaSalle Street, when she met and married Jacob Baur, Chicago business man, in 1906. Carbonic bubbles had already served Jacob Baur well; Bertha Baur was a wealthy widow in 1912. She took up her husband...
Perhaps, in the Kodak films on natural science, there will be glimpses of a furious, thick-maned, leaping, snarling, terrifying African lion. Last week despatches related that a companion of George Eastman, on his current expedition to the heart of the Dark Continent, had shot such a beast. If he was carrying out his own plans as announced, (TIME, Mar. 22, SCIENCE), Mr. Eastman was doubtless at the scene, cranking way at his camera from behind a bush. Mr. Eastman planned to hunt, personally, with cameras only...
Next day eloquent disciple J. J. Mickle told the press of a dark, "diabolical conspiracy;" the spell binding prophet spoke...
...Paris a factory burned, 8,000 lovely women were destroyed. Their smooth arms, shaped for the admiration of a great public, dwindled in flame, still clutching to bare bosoms a trail of cloth or towel; their dark or flaxen heads became lumps of strange matter that smoked and stewed and reeked; their carmine lips, half-parted, twisted for a while as if in a vain effort to breathe the fire, until, under the rapture of this last kiss, they closed forever. None escaped. They were wax models, destined for the windows of department stores, milliners, hairdressers...
...that glance he saw the letter on the varnished table. He read it and went into his room and shut the door. Pretty soon there was a new smell in the flat, the smell of gas, and then, a long while later, another smell still, fetid and dark, a breath from underground. The girl did not come back. Nobody came-for ten days...