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...transporting of the heavy loads of material up the side of the mountain through wind, rain and the heartbreaking drag of the slush and melting ice calls for hard work and lots of it. . . . Captain Bob Bartlett. . . is on the job all day long, encouraging, joking with them and occasionally rewarding them with a cup of coffee or sugar or tobacco...
People who believe that pessimism has been the chief drag against business felt better last week. The mercury in the sensitive thermometer of sentiment went shooting up. Warmest of rays was a sensational rally in stock prices. What had started three weeks prior as a slow, creeping advance suddenly became a running, leaping market. In percentages, even the famed Moratorium Market with its 28.9% gain in 25 days was outdistanced. Railroad shares jumped a whopping 58%, utilities 38%, industrials 34%. The market as a whole fattened itself 37% in 22 days, putting on millions of dollars of weight, much goodwill...
Because Aiken is much favored by Eastern socialites, the school attracted many a notable daughter, fell into the familiar pattern of select schools, emulating notably Virginia's Foxcroft. There are hockey and lacrosse; horses may be brought to Fermata or hired there; able girls go drag hunting. But Fermata is not scholastically distinguished. Possibly it did not care to be; between 1923 and 1927 only three girls took College Board examinations...
Meanwhile "The Harmony Twins" Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul and Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
...faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with the faith-healer...