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...England has a great advantage over other parts of the country, in that it has one-fifth of the consumers of the country at its front door. New England has to pay no exhorbitant freight rates that tend to take away a great share of the profit of farming. Freight rates are so high in the west that it costs the consumer of California no more to buy Argentina products than it does to buy Iowa products. New England is without this disadvantage...
This other picture represented the Associated Press-which is a non-profit-making network of news bureaus established in the offices of leading U. S. newspapers, with numerous correspondents abroad-as an organism which, originally sober grey matter, has lately exhibited iridescence, volatility and other sensational characteristics...
George W. ("Penny-a-Pound Profit") Loft, candy maker, horse-racer, onetime member of the House of Representatives, last week became a banker by a fluke...
University Hall, designed by Bulfinch., is another building that a vagabond could study to good profit, while Massachusetts, and all the older dormitories are examples of simple, severe Colonial architecture...
...Piano Profits. President George G. Foster's reason to American Piano Co. (Ampico, Knabe, Chickering, Mason & Hamlin) stockholders for selling $17,666,105 worth of pianos last year and making $1,775,429 profit: "The increasing demand for good music from an appreciative public, which is constantly becoming more intelligent in musical matters...