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Died. Emil Bacher, 71, king of the Hungarian flour industry; in prison at Budapest; of apoplexy. Borrowing ?1,500,000 to fight the Chicago Wheat Exchange, he lost in a year the colossal fortune it had taken 50 years to amass...
...talker, gangling, circumloquacious George Harvey with his big Adam's apple, his quick loyalties and fierce antagonisms, his life of violent spurts in oblique directions. Both men had had adventurous and active early years, Henry Frick (born 1849) baking coke in Pennsylvania, learning business methods from his grandfather, flour merchant and distiller of famed Overholt Whisky; George Harvey as a reporter, working for the New York World, managing editor...
Scientists at Princeton have found that the rope would have to be a thousand feet long and three inches thick to withstand the onslaught of the two combining classes. A tug of war was decided on last year to take the place of the historical flour picture, but the student council is now at a loss to find a suitable substitute...
Scrapple is the product consisting of meat and/or meat byproducts mixed with meal or the flour of grain, and cooked with seasoning materials, after which it is poured into a mold...
...another man would make his point in a dice game, Pietro Mascagni. It was in Leghorn, Italy, that his father baked bread, but the rumor that Pietro helped in the family trade has never been verified. Indeed, the boy Mascagni refused from the first to soil his hands with flour; he seemed to have an illimitable capacity for roistering, in reward for which, when he was sixteen, his father propelled him into the gutter of Leghorn and locked the bakery door...