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...agree with Subscriber Cain, TIME, Oct. 4, p. 6, that 85 is an outrageous price for TIME, but please let us pay that price if the alternative is a bigger, fatter magazine, padded out with advertisements. I'd like to pay $2, but not if we would then have a paper a la Satevepost...
...Vincennes, Indiana, had known certain things for a long time. He has gone about getting documents and putting them into a black brief case. One David Curtis Stephenson was tried in Indianapolis for murdering a girl. While the trial went on, Mr. Adams's brief case grew fatter. He asked Governor Jackson to investigate some charges in support of which he, Mr. Adams, would be very glad to bring forward documents. The Governor did not seem to think an investigation was necessary. Mr. Adams then got himself appointed head of a special investigating committee of the Indiana Republican Editors...
...Another phenomenon of adiposity died in Los Angeles last week. He was Theodore Valanzula, who three weeks ago was side-showing at Coney Island, N. Y., as "Tom Ton, 960 Ibs." He had begun to get fatter, felt miserable, wanted to see his wife and three children. So he took a baggage car across the country. Home, a baggage truck transported him from train to hospital, where the institutional derrick hoisted him to bed. He had gained 100 pounds in the fortnight of illness. Doctors say his mortal half-ton died of myocarditis, dropsy and suffocation of the heart...
Eager farmers, their wives, their boys, their girls, their dependent uncles, aunties, began to thumb last week the new annual catalog of Montgomery Ward & Co. The farmers found themselves more prosperous than last year and they found the catalog correspondingly fatter. It contained 700 pages measuring each 9 x 13 inches. It contained - very like its predecessors-marvelous pictures of skirts, of trousers, of miniature railroads, of horses ready to ride, of chairs ready to sit down in, of frenzied wallpaper, of tombstones, of everything. And the prices? A mere $3.17, or $22.45 including wrapper...
Country mice, people have declared, are fatter than city mice-the old oaken bucket is a better vessel than the iron water pipe-the rugged farmer's lad, how he bulges beside the spindling sallowling from the city...