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...notice Mr. Wallen says that I was busily engaged in chewing Granger Twist tobacco. I will admit that I was chewing tobacco, but it was not Granger Twist and Mr. Wallen was as near correct about most of the things that he says I said as he was about the kind of tobacco that he said I was chewing...
Fattest of all prizes at the Chicago Art Institute's 39th annual show last week was one of $1,500 given by Patron Frank Granger Logan, retired grain broker, the Institute's assiduous vice president. This sum they presented to Painter George Benjamin Luks for his strong, broadly painted, modernistic study of a male native of Cuba operating an accordion. Another $1,000 from Patron Logan went to Painter Charles Sydney Hopkinson for a study of himself and his family...
...DAYS OF MY FATHER, GENERAL GRANT-Jesse R. Grant & Henry Francis Granger - Harper ($3.50). Lighter reminiscences of a President...
...attributed to one of the greatest gambles ever taken in U. S. railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight, or of entering into transcontinental railroading as a late comer. It assumed the later alternative...
...pigs, cure them, sell for a plump profit that will take the mortgage off the house. Eventually he does so. In the meanwhile, there are two hours of pretty consistent amusement?due in no small part to the expert character-playing of Nydia Westman, Wallace Ford, Maud Granger and George Henry Trader...