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...bothered by his complaint." By that time, the Globe was making $30,000 a year. Editor Howe sold it to his staff for $50,000, used the money to buy a farm on the Missouri River which he called Potato Hill. At Potato Hill he promptly resumed his marathon of printed discontent in E. W. Howe's Monthly. Ed Howe wrote his magazine in illegible longhand. One of its first advertisements, for a horse, mule and donkey liniment, appeared regularly for 22 years...
...report to his chief since the utensils, paintings and sculpture which he described last winter (TIME, Jan. 30). Cutting through a ridge to shift his railroad, Dr. Herzfeld came upon hundreds of cuneiform tablets in the Elamite (pre-Persian) language which he hoped would give the battles of Marathon and Salamis, so vaingloriously described by Greeks, a different slant. C. A joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania, exploring Ur of the Chaldees under the direction of the Museum's veteran Excavator Charles Leonard Woolley, unearthed a temple dedicated to the moon-goddess...
...hung a large sign: "Ladies and Gentlemen: This is a place of refined Amusement. Whistling, Stomping of Feet, Drunkenness, Catcalls, and other Noises strictly prohibited". The audience whistled, stomped its feet, screamed, one doughty matron rang a cowbell. It was witnessing a great climax, the end of a Dance Marathon...
...form of refined amusement for civilized people the dance marathon may leave nothing to be desired. To each nation its taste: in Moscow the public ballet, in Vienna the state supported opera, in Berlin the municipal drama, in New England the profitable marathon. In New England the profitable marathon, whose five contestants will, if science tolls true, never replace the nerve tissue destroyed by excessive fatigue. In New England an audience which pays to watch youths shufile slowly around a circle for six months, till vivacity and health and stamina are worn completely away...
...white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing...