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Otto Wellman claimed without successful contradiction that he had lived longest in the same house-for 66 years at No. 300 DeKoven Place...
...Chicago, last week, a picnic was held for the people who have lived longest in the city. These gathered in a park and held contests among themselves to decide which one was the "Oldest Settler," the greatest ancient...
Boarding the S. S. De Grasse, Editor White said: "That's the longest gangplank in the world.* Three seconds after I cross it I'll be 3,000 miles away from the whole mess." Editor White was bound for Paris, with Mrs. White and a "chunk of money." He was going also to Bayreuth, Germany, to "take a big Wagnerian souse in Parsifal to purge myself of all my sins . . . moral and political...
...Referring to the French Line's advertisement: "Longest gangplank in the world-once aboard you are in France...
...Ladder is the current Broadway play with the longest run. On the last day of June it will reach its 660th performance. In the duration of its run legends have grown up about the members of The Ladder's cast, its author, a friend of the producer, whose name is supposed to have been forgotten, its audiences, but most of all the staunch oil man who is its angel. At Houston, the man who got $10,000,000 in oil almost overnight was given an overnight boom for the U. S. Vice Presidency...