Word: localitis
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...presidency of the local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is not listed by actuaries as an especially dangerous occupation. Yet Mrs. C. B. Cook of Vinton, Ia., found it so. She became an active Prohibition crusader, aiding and abetting enforcement agents in every way. Then the grim train of events began. One Sunday evening returning home from services at the First Christian Church, she found her house defaced with fragments of more than a dozen putrescent eggs. Next day she had the egg stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home...
...Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, leader of a Liberal Government which still has constitutionally a year or more's lease on life, has begun to see ominous caligraphs upon the wall, written by the normally Liberal Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, which have recently returned Conservative local legislatures. The owners of the Toronto Globe, the most conspicuous Liberal paper of the Dominion, have also recently abandoned Mr. King. And Lord...
...always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best best-girl was glad. The doings of the local Hyacinth Club contribute juicy bits of satire on small-town "artiness", but for the most part it appears that the indulgent Messrs. Scribner have given light to an unimpressive autobiography...
...effect of the depression has been the elimination of small cigar-makers. Before the War, there were thousands of small and purely local cigar-makers; it took 300 companies to produce 50 per cent of the annual supply. At present, 22 cigar companies are making 65 per cent of the supply, with the prospect that in five years more ten companies will do 90 per cent of the business...
...leading features in general business during the past year has been the great activity of bus manufacturers. All over the country busses are entering into competition with local railway trains and traction companies. Even with-in the limits of moderate-sized cities, there is a strong tendency for independent or traction-owned bus companies to enter the municipal transportation field. The outlook is as reassuring to bus manufacturers as it is dark and gloomy to the old-fashioned electric traction companies...