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...want anything from me . . . you can say that the canned goods market is depressed. ... I am sick to God of hearing people ask me about my plays. I never wrote anything more than a bill, and I never will. I'm in the canned goods exporting game in Frisco .... I'm a two-fisted...
...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...
High in Montmartre, one Frisco le Nègre presides as the epitome of sinewy darkness over white folks' revels. His wide infectious smile brims with the elements of primeval mirth. Last week he welcomed many a world-famous guest to Mitchell's, a noted Parisian variant of the blackamoor nightclubs of Harlem, New York City...
Finally Black Frisco persuaded Georges Carpentier and Rudolph Valentino to contest the finals of what had by then become a Charleston contest...
...answer Mr. Valentino walked over to Mrs. Gould "with a firm and dignified step," and spun her out upon the floor in a Brazilian maxixe. As dawn broke, Frisco awarded him first prize in the Charleston contest...