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...Another Uncle, Dr. C. W. Coolidge won third prize in the Buff Plymouth Rock Cockerels class in a poultry show at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. He had but a single entry against 18 prizewinners from the entire country...
Their excitement was caused by the fact that the Bank of France had long suspected the Hungarian-Fascist Albrechtists of being in some way connected with the French bank-note counterfeiting. It was now decided to make an exhaustive search of the 15 miles of natural tunnels in the rock upon which Windisch-Graetz Castle stands. The tunnels had once romantically housed the adherents of the famed Hungarian revolutionary Prince Francis Rakoczy. They might now have been unromantically degraded to the use of counterfeiters. The French detectives poked about with flashlights during many a weary night, found nothing...
...mysterious disappearance of the fabled Atlantis, which Plate mentions as being just beyond the Gates of Hercules in his time. Perhaps in the future when American history is no longer honeycombed with patriotic myths, school-children in addition to learning that the Pilgrims did not and on Plymouth Rock, will also be taught that Columbus sailed west, not because he thought the World was round, but because a Mendelian instinct inherited from Cro-Magnon ancestry, showed him that there was land in that direction...
...players most generously. Charles Brickley '15 organized a team in New York several years ago, and this rather unsuccessful venture has been now transformed into a distinct success. The rivalry between the Chicago teams, the Bears and the Cardinals, weekly brings out crowds of 40,000 spectators. Kansas City, Rock Island, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Canton, Akron, Colum bus, Buffalo, Rechester, Philadelphia, and Providence all support the new professional game...
...last few years there has been almost an epidemic of temperance-drink companies, following in the highly successful wake of Coco Cola of Atlanta. Once considered local and insignificant concerns, they have sought capital in the Wall Street financial markets. Speculators are now accustomed to buy White Rock on margin or-if they dare-sell Canada Dry Ginger Ale short. Some of those temperance-drink shares have done very well by their holders in this year's stock market. Recently the Welch Grape Juice Co. for the first time since February, 1921, resumed common stock dividends by a payment...