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...declares buttermilk to be an alcoholic beverage, of necessity is a jackass statute." That the country and Congress would vote Dry-except for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. That "Governor Pinchot [page 5] has endeared himself to the hardware trade with his talk of padlocks [for saloon doors]. I predict there will be a boom in that commodity in the Keystone State." Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama is the only Democratic candidate whose boom for the Presidential nomination is openly and actively under way. His enterprising political manager issued an "Underwood map" of the U. S., in which...
Among other casualties were Greenough, Kernan, Spalding, and Eastman none of whom participated in today's scrimmage. This fact, coupled with the injury of Howe makes it impossible to predict as yet the lineup for Saturday's game...
Record car loadings of early Summer led some to predict much larger net earnings for the railroads. Stock market prices have not, however, advanced to an important extent, and now, as the company statements for July are made public, the reason has become apparent. Although the gross business of the roads as a rule reflects their record volume of traffic, higher expenses here prevented any great growth of net earnings, and in some cases even decreased them. The purchase of new equipment as well as the lasting effects of the shopmen's strike have more than offset the increased...
...bound volume of Punch or Life ?and you can study dispassionately the periodicity of recurrence of all our jokes. Some jokes repeat every two or three years, others (like Halley's Comet) take longer. A little luck?and you can predict unerringly just what grey-bearded quips will march from the storehouse to reappear, all reglanded and mineralaved, in The Naughtinesses of 1924. Then there are the political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should...
Flying in two airplanes over the craters of Mt. Etna, Italian scientists were able to gather sufficient data to predict the end of volcanic disturbances. A number of photographs of the greatest value were taken, and observations made of the direction of lava streams may render practicable the erection of artificial barriers to check or eliminate future disasters...