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...Flour: more than a hundred seizures, because unbranded, or short-weight, or containing excessive moisture...
...story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times did I wish he were holding a sack of flour instead of myself! He had muscles like ridged steel. Resting on them was about as comfortable as lying on a pile of steel bars. I used to dread that fourth act like a trip to the dentist." There was also Leo Slezak, who "is very stout; 'I always like to work...
These friendly concerns are: Kirkman & Son (soap), The Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., Washburn-Crosby Co. (flour), The Champion Spark Plug Co., The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., The Sun Oil Co., The Hood Rubber Co., The Ajax Rubber Co,, The Ward Baking Co., The Dodge Brothers Co., Gulf Refining Co., Standard Oil Co. of New York, The Texas Co. (oil), The Fleischmann Co. (yeast...
Other changes announced include a return of the "black shoe" era for Freshmen. This ban forbidding Freshmen to wear tea shoes had been lifted by the first 1924 Senior Council which was recently voted out of office after it had abolished the annual "Flour Picture" and various other sacred college institutions...
...wheat flour, $1.04 a hundredweight (present rate, 78?; limits under...