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...would be idle to suppose that the tiny fraction of the U. S. canine population which last week posed and strutted in Madison Square Garden was in any sense the most important. Other dogs did not pause last week, in the performance of their deeds and duties, to admire the antics of these prototypes. Instead, as if stimulated by such a public display of good breeding, they spent a week of exceptional and most engrossing activity. Aside from their regular business-that of burying bones, digging up bones, barking at automobiles, scaring children, sniffing at feet or tree trunks, running...
...puppies are worth more money. With this speculative element in the sport, breeding pedigreed dogs becomes a business. Talavera Margaret, for instance, the winner of the show, was when very young sold by her breeder for $15. Later, he rebought her and sold her for $1,250, a fraction of her present value. The prizes offered in dog shows, unlike those for horse races, promise no great profits; these are to be secured merely by owning a dog whose puppies or self will be accepted in exchange for large sums of money by fanciers who wish to be honored...
Morenz is stoop shouldered with skinny legs. Possessed of that tiny fraction of speed which slips him around a twisting enemy, he is the highest scorer in either the International or American Divisions of big league hockey. Statistics issued last week give Morenz 22 goals. His teammate Aurel Joliat has 20. The highest scorer in the American Division is Hay, Detroit...
...appearance of the new Ford released accumulated orders for 1,000,000 cars, the Department of Commerce estimated last week. The Ford company received orders for more than 400,000, a great fraction of them before buyers had seen the new cars...
...Last week they were selling 20,000,000 a day. But success has been costly. Lorillard's net income in 1925 was $5,641,431. Last year it was $4,117,197. This year it will probably be less. Advertising costs, although a trivial fraction of a cent for each cigaret sold, is altogether enormous. But continued success in selling "Old Gold" will far more than pay for advertising appropriations. Meanwhile Lorillard's profits on their other brands of cigarets (Murad, Helmar, Egyptian Dieties), cigars and tobaccos show total profits as high...