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...small brown beast, spry as a witch and ugly as a gargoyle, was perched on the top of a freight engine when it drew into the station of Greenfield, Mass. As the train stopped, several persons tried to grasp the gargoyle's tail. Annoyed and impudent, he snapped it out of reach and hopped away through the freight yard. When finally captured in the corner of a box car, he was discovered to be a ridiculous hobo monkey who had escaped from a circus and boarded the freight train several towns away...
...usual the race lasted a little more than two minutes. As usual the richest sporting gentlemen and ladies had come many miles to see it. There wasn't room in the freight yards for all the private cars. On a landing field near the track a line of passenger airplanes was parked. Furnished rooms that rented all year for $5 a week rented for $30 a night...
...learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce derived from a given region. Be coming mildly technical, he pointed with thoroughgoing pride to the new German synthetic fertilizers nitrate of lime and nitrophoska. "The demand for nitrophoska," exulted Herr Doktor Bueb, "has frequently...
...tight in his suite aboard the Aquitania when she docked at Manhattan last week. After all other passengers had clumped down the gangplank, Mr. Morgan, who had successfully maintained an incognito all the way over, slipped ashore, was met by Partner Thomas W. Lamont, and descended in a freight elevator. For the past month he has been cruising in the Mediterranean aboard his yacht Corsair. Three days after he landed Mr. Morgan momentously fulfilled a duty which he has often promised to perform but which had heretofore escaped him. He began to serve on the Nassau County Grand Jury...
...Cleveland last week, the American Transatlantic Steamship Line announced that within a month it would begin a 25-day freight service from Cleveland to Europe...