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...thousands of fur dealers, dressers, dyers, manufacturers, retailers and their employes throughout the land last week was National Fur Week. They did their best through Press, radio, cinema, window displays and fashion shows to make the rest of the U. S. aware of fur. anxious to own some. Warmish weather handicapped them in New York and other sections, but by the end of the week they felt they were off to a prosperous season. Fur men had other reasons for feeling cheerful last week.* They had begun 1933 with three bleak years behind them. Both manufacturers and retailers had swung...
...Mink fur, dark brown, deep, silky, lustrous, rates with silver fox as most popular all-round fur. It takes 75 to 100 pelts. which now average $5 to $20 apiece, to make a coat. With so rich a market in prospect, farmers have been trying to breed and raise mink for more than a decade. It has taken them that long to learn how. Not until this year have pen-raised pelts approached trapped pelts in quality...
Minks with finest fur are in Labrador, Quebec and northeastern New England. A pair of breeding minks descended from their stock costs about $300. But breeders who try to start with one pair are apt to be disappointed. Female minks are choosy. Experienced breeders advise a minimum investment of about $650, which will buy three females, two males. Better plan, say some, is to begin with $1,000 worth of breeding stock, add $300 to $500 worth during the first three years. Each female mink should produce two to ten kits a year. By the fourth year it is claimed...
...plot concerns the vagaries of a young man who has fallen in love with an efficient deride of the value of marriage. Her acceptance of a fur coat from his uncle puts her in his disfavor and he marries her sister, really a complicated situation, Like the Victorian hero, the sight of his former beloved married to his uncle (all of which comes in due course of events) sends him, not to Africa in quest of big game, but to South America on an engineering job. The death of his wife at home and of his uncle solve the situation...
When the late Alexander Berg, wealthy St. Louis fur dealer, was kidnapped in November 1931, his abductors forced him to sign a letter appointing one Paul A. Richards, St. Louis criminal lawyer, as go-between. To Lawyer Richards the kidnapped man was forced to send a promissory note for $50,000 to be converted into cash and paid to the abductors after Berg's release. Lawyer Richards went immediately to Berg's attorney, Morris Levinson, demanded $11,000 for his proposed services on behalf of the kidnapped man-$1,000 to be paid immediately, $10,000 when Berg...