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Hohner of Hohner. "The expansion of the harmonica industry in modern imes has been in closely related ratio to be frequency and magnitude of modern wars." Thus postulated, at Manhattan ast week, Herr Doktor Will Hohner, on of him who founded the famed M. Hohner Harmonica Co. in 1856. Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still...
Eight hours later, to Grant's Pass came Flying Cloud of the Karooks to receive $500. And then, while a fellow redskin trotting beside him played old airs on a harmonica, came 55-year-old Melika of the Zuni tribe to receive plaudits befitting a barrel-chested...
...York: "I had fun one afternoon last week. Having rested myself at the Seaview Golf Club at Atlantic City, I went to the railroad station to meet Mrs. Smith and some friends coming from New York. I was 20 minutes early, so a group of urchins with a harmonica attracted me. Espying a red-headed lad among them, I said: 'How about a Charleston, sonny?' The harmonica began to swell; the lads began to dance and wiggle. I tilted my derby, clapped my hands, shouted 'Hey! Hey!' while my foot beat time upon the sidewalks...
...displayed notable unprogressiveness in this respect." At the village of Pnieva one nicknamed "Pump" on account of his fondness for kissing persons of both sexes created a mild sensation by defying the new feminist organization "with a doggerel song," the accompaniment for which was furnished by one Gurok, village harmonica player...
...dried fish. These are old warrior tokens?the chestnuts signifying triumph, the dried fish, good luck. At Tokyo the U. S. aviators were lionized by the U. S. colony, official and aeronautical Japan, the populace. They were presented with cigarette cases by the American Society of Tokyo, and with harmonicas by the Young Men's Harmonica Clubs. Japanese mechanics busied themselves putting the Douglas World Cruisers into perfect condition and replacing the Liberty motors with new ones; taking off their sea legs in the shape of pontoons and putting on their landing gears, whereby they will become lighter on landing...