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Wisconsin newspaper men put out a book called La Follette's Winning of Wisconsin. The Philadelphia Public Ledger comments: " Either La Follette won Wisconsin or the state is in the wrong vest pocket...
...College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale for the profit of another person is illegal. In the College, however, leniency has been shown; many courses are largely an accumulation of fact, which can be conveniently condensed into notes; and such vest-pocket editions, properly used, do little harm. But in courses which are intended to develop processes of thinking, second-hand notes can only give the trusting student an unwarranted feeling of security; and, naturally, the whole advantage of such a course is lost when the regular exercises are shirked. No set of notes...
...book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
...Berlin, where butter costs 6,500 marks a pound and is no longer served in the restaurants, pocket butter-boxes are in vogue...
INDIANA: Governor McCray announced that he would pocket-veto a bill passed by the Assembly, providing a bonus of $10 for each month of service for veterans of the World War or the war with Spain...