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...infant company asserts it has found the long-sought low-temperature distillation process for converting bituminous into a smokeless, slow-burning fuel which will undersell retail anthracite. If the process really works commercially, it may prove to be the tonic so badly needed by the bituminous mines of the Midwest...
...lover, 150,000 lovers of sentimental music and spectacle from what the Chicago Tribune calls "Chicagoland" one night last week had a grand time. At Chicago's Soldier Field 4,000 contest winners from 35 midwest cities roared the Hallelujah Chorus, 1,100 musicians blared through such barber-shop favorites as "Home, Sweet Home," "Sweet Adeline," a squad of "Blacksmiths" banged 6-in. sparks from anvils in time to Il Trovatore's Anvil Chorus, cannons on the lakefront boomed for Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Proceeds of the festival went to charity...
...Poet? New England's Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island's Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California's Robinson Jeffers ahead of either. Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson are other candidates from New England. Carl Sandburg is the Midwest's best voice. Vachel Lindsay catches the whole jingle of American speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed who was no U. S. citizen, who never visited America or wrote about...
Forty-eight years ago, peddling books from door to door in Kansas, Bert and Elmer Underwood threw up their jobs. They had discovered that stereoscopic pictures sold much quicker than books. In another year they had canvassers all over the Midwest selling those double-ended postcards which nice people used to slide into felt lined holders and peer at through the marvelous lenses that showed you the real Matterhorn, the actual "Scene at Brighton Beach." Aware that prosperity lay in "World Educational" pictures, the brothers shouldered their bulky cameras and in 1896 went to Europe. They "did" Egypt, Palestine...
...held. How Saengerbunds and Saengerfests have succeeded was shown by the huge attendance at Chicago's fest in 1927 when 100 choruses sent 5,000 singers to participate. i:.: the U. S. today there are four main Saengerbund divisions-the Greater Pacific, North Pacific, Northeastern and North American (Midwest). The last-named held its fest in Detroit in June. The Northeastern group will convene at Atlantic City in the autumn of next year...