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...when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch over her heart; she is the "Honorable First Pig Lady in America," for ingeniously transforming Mr. Chapman's pig-fund idea. Like 80,000 others who learned from...
...well as economically, than the codes for basic coal, cotton, oil, steel, motors, lumber, leather, wool. It touched 1,000,000 stores, 5,000,000 employes and $30,000,000,000 of yearly trade by each & every U. S. citizen who can afford to buy so much as a pin. Upon it depended the Cost of Living...
...thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note, "This is the exact size of Mr. Rockefeller's stick-pin- without diamond." Artist Matsakas profited from these criticisms and two weeks later sent the revised portrait to Florida. He carefully laid away the tie. Last week a Chicago newspaper reported that Matsakas "has called our attention to the fact" of the portrait, the correspondence and the tie. Said Matsakas...
...happily starving and avoiding the eye of Work. Plot: a daughter gets an Italian count and the uncle gets $25,000 in the stockmarket. Then they lose the $25,000 in the stockmarket and the count is suspected of being a fake, writing a bad check, stealing the engagement pin he has given his fiancée and running away in a stolen car. In a weak third act he returns to disprove all charges and the family revives its punch-drunk fortunes in the stockmarket. Characters: the raucous, cynical daughter (Claire Carleton), the daughter in love (Nancy Sheridan...
...Springs, Ark., Mrs. Mary Cronin, 34, sinned, brooded. It was her eyes which had led her to sin and the Bible said, "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out."* When a doctor got to her, Mary Cronin, armed with a safety pin, had dug out her right eye, most of her left...