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...family rose and fell with her. Her father, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose title was the reward of the combined ambitions of his daughter and himself, was "spared the ignominy of serving on the jury" that condemned her to death shortly after the like fate of her brother Rockfort, who had died for the most sufficient reason that Henry desired his definite removal...
...tonnage of California wine grapes during recent years is also. interesting in this connection. In 1919, the tonnage of the crop was 400,000-valued at $20,000,000, or $5 a ton. Production then fell to 375,000 tons in 1920, and to 310,000 tons in 1921, while prices rose to $75 and $82 respectively. But at this point the "home brew" wine maker apparently got busy. In 1922 the crop jumped to 450,000 tons, and last year was 428,000 tons, despite a severe rail-dew. Meanwhile prices fell...
...record of carrying some 16,000,000,000 persons in 1923. At first the new "electric railways" often proved very profitable and several of America's large private fortunes resulted from them. During the War and until very recently, however, the industry fell upon evil days. Operating costs were doubled or tripled, fares advanced little or not at all, competition with jitneys arose, and about a sixth of the industry went into the hands of receivers. Both track and equipment were sold for junk...
...then, but it befell that victory came to the side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings of politics turned genteel phrases. Words, always free to him, fell in modulated periods from his lips, tinted with no mean wit, with some felicity, some eccentricity. Being away, he was yet ever with his countrymen, catching their notice some times with a ridiculed phrase, some times with an exaggerated gesture. They did not quite like it that he should wear a toga...
...comparison of scores is so contradictory that neither team will stars the game a favorite. Exeter trimmed the seconds 4 to 2 a week ago and these seconds have a victory over the Freshmen to their credit. Cushing Academy, however, which fell before Booth's pitching earlier in the season, slugged their way to an 11 to 6 win over Exeter on Wednesday. With Booth on the mound for the 1927 team again the schoolboys may find rough travelling this afternoon...