Word: leatherizing
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...varied in extent among the different groups of commodities composing the total index figure. Between March 1 and Aug. 1, the total index has fallen 12.2 points; the decline in breadstuffs was 19 points, in livestock 4 points, in provisions 8 points, in fruits 14 points, in hides and leather 13 points, in textiles 13 points, in metals 12 points, in coal and coke 27 points, in oils 6 points, in naval stores 110 points, in chemicals and drugs 5 points, and in miscellanies 20 points. Only building materials registered an advance in price, amounting to 3 points...
Died. John W. O'Bannon, 54, inventor of a substitute for leather, founder and former President of the O'Bannon Corporation, which for several years supplied the upholstery for all Ford cars, in West Hill, sanitarium near Riverdale-on-Hudson, N. Y., insane...
...more gas in his motor boat, but piled the family in a rowboat for ballast and paddled up the river. This was the only water sport fully accredited by society. Bearded ball players, looking like the present House of David team, played the new game of baseball with leather-tipped gloves; and Paddy the Blacksmith stopped the ball with his unprotected chest. At home those more pressed for time did not take a "daily dozen" before the phonograph, but jumped up and down on a stiff spring board, a setting-up of shaking down which demanded a high ceiling...
...Fool Your Wife. A banal triangle-story of "fashionable society" produced in the usual deluxe, ooze-leather edition way. The chief characters rejoice in enormous stucco palaces-there is a pervasive flavor of butlers, Rolls-Royces and The Book of Etiquette about it all. A bathing revel occurs at Miami in which all the guests have taken the wise precaution of substituting swimming gear for the more usual undies. The subtitles suit the picture-they are, most of them, of the "When came the dawnlight" school...
Bradstreet's index number of wholesale prices (1913 average-100) stood at 151.1 on April 1, an advance of only .02 over March 1. Indexes of different commodity groups on April 1 were as follows: Breadstuffs, 127; livestock, 100; provisions, 141; fruits, 154; hides and leather, 118; textiles, 170; metals, 121; fuels, 210; oils, 157; naval stores, 328; building materials, 180; chemicals, 202; miscellaneous...