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Into the garden where clustered a whimpering lad, his pale mother, a few niched apples and a Seventh Day Adventist missionary there came a maid servant. In her hand she held a bottle of silver nitrate which the missionary, C. A. Haysmeir, had bid her fetch. The pale Korean mother glossed her son's felony with imploring tears. But Missionary Haysmeir picked up the brush portentously. He dipped it into the bottle of scarifying chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Adventist | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...blundering manners. He has arrived to marry an English widow whom he has never seen. Through the vagaries of an old man's will this marriage will net them jointly $3,750,000. The widow objects to being married for money, disguises herself as her own parlor maid and wins the rude invader by her wit and charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...mention of her is made in the "authorized" Life of Benito Mussolini, though several of his early mistresses are dwelt upon. The young Mussolini-hodcarrier, schoolmaster, editor-yet burned with an ardor which singed many a maid and dame ere ever he set the world on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Donna Rachele | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

Died. Dr. and Mrs. Aaron Ember, their six-year-old invalid son and Mrs. Ember's maid; at Windsor Hills, near Baltimore, when their house burned to the ground. Dr. Ember was Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Two children survive. Life-work manuscripts were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...four largest agencies are popularly supposed to be J. Walter Thompson Co. (which handles such advertising as Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, Cream of Wheat, Fleischmann's Yeast, O'Sullivan's Heels, Ed. Pinaud, Royal Baking Powder, Sun-Maid Raisins, Swift & Co., Sloan's Liniment, Welch's Grape Juice) ; N. W. Ayer & Son (which handles such accounts as American Telephone and Telegraph, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Hire's Root Beer, International Silver Co., National Cash Register, Reynolds Tobacco, Squibb, Steinway Pianos, Victor Talking Machines) ; F. Wallis Armstrong Co. (which has Campbell's soup, Fels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coalition | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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