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...acres of untouched fertile soil. The increase in value of all property in the state from 1912 to 1922 is estimated at 162.9%-a record second only to that of North Carolina, with 175.7%. Population of Florida cities has increased swiftly in the last four years. Jacksonville has grown 36%, from 91,000 in 1920 to 125,000 in 1924; Miami 153%, from 29,000 to 75,00; Tampa 93%, from 51,000 to 100,000; St. Petersburg 110%, from 14,000 to 30,000, and Sarasota 365%, from about 2,000 to 10,000. The latter city last June...
Small boys fight with sticks and stones, with mud, spitballs, hard peas. Not so gentlemen who have grown great on the good meat of dignity, the drink of influence. They well know that a tongue, derisively projected, cannot be readily wagged. Thus Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American (Baseball) League, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball tsar, joined conflict without resort to the grotesque methods of adolescence. Yet loud has been their struggle. The facts...
...proposal for a central body to control production of the drug and a plan to decrease importations by 10% annually. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries to determine what crops could be profitably grown instead of opium. Nobody could agree with anybody; all presented compromise plans; none accepted them, and there the matter rested. After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn, Japanese Delegate M. Sugimura declared he could stand...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS ? The rocky strata of Eugene O'Neill's imagination, this time on a harsh New England farm. The triangle of an old man, his young bride and his grown...
...back of the book, a valuable reprint of an old Spanish edition, was complete crushed. There have also been several cases of cutting out pictures from books or magazines, some of which will be hard to replace. In fact the situation towards the end of last year had grown so bad that this year the library authorities decided to transfer some magazines such as the "Graphic" and "L' Illustration", from the periodical room to the regular stacks...