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...Montgomery Ward & Co. The farmers found themselves more prosperous than last year and they found the catalog correspondingly fatter. It contained 700 pages measuring each 9 x 13 inches. It contained - very like its predecessors-marvelous pictures of skirts, of trousers, of miniature railroads, of horses ready to ride, of chairs ready to sit down in, of frenzied wallpaper, of tombstones, of everything. And the prices? A mere $3.17, or $22.45 including wrapper...
...Strike strong head winds and see storms both north-west and southwest in distance. Believe we can ride them without trouble...
...Members of crew called from gondola pit and sent into runway to aid in keep ship on even keel . . . Lightning increasing in intensity. Hope to ride out storm soon. . . Pleasant City seen in distance. . . wind increasing in volume, get chance to?...
...strike for several weeks demanding 100 francs a month more pay (they have been getting 500 and 600 francs a month), a 24-hour general strike was called. Everything in industry and transportation stopped dead. Firemen, and gas and electric workers were the chief officials. The only opportunity to ride by taxi, streetcar or bus, was in a funeral cortege, for funeral coaches were exempted. Postmen, musicians and many waiters took part in the suspension...
...cowpunchers, one of them a full-blooded Cherokee Indian from Sweetwater named Ted Court or "Texas," were in Chicago for a rodeo. They fell in with three amiable young Chicagoans, and all five became intoxicated-the Texans most extraordinarily. That being the case, they decided to take an automobile ride. They piled into a light green automobile, drove north along Michigan Avenue, to the point where it merges into Lake Shore Drive. There they ran past the Drake Hotel, one of the most fashionable in Chicago, and turned east on Walton Place along the north side of the hotel. There...