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This accident at landing was one which would not ordinarily occur and which can easily be prevented in the future by using rock-wool instead of excelsior...
...browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." She owns a patch of mining territory 27 miles north of Mojave, near wild, scenic Red Rock Canyon. Her claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns...
...instruments in the last twelvemonth. But pianomen, reporting that the sales of 49,595 pianos through June were 33% higher than for the corresponding period last year, were most optimistic. They expected to sell 80,000 more by the end of the year, a gain of 500% over rock bottom 1932. Some pianomen thought this increase was traceable to more attractive "streamlined" cabinets, others to the general revival of installment selling. But all were sure that they would run out of materials before the year is up if the present buying wave continues...
...When I die I want you to place my body in the office of the Mercury. Start the press and keep it running. Show the mourners the new Linotype. And have a Negro chorus sing the Rock of Ages...
...through 1925), a star player since 1916, Hornsby has played on five major-league teams and managed four (St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Braves, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Browns) in the past eleven years. Cardinals Owner Sam Breadon used to say that listening to him was like "having a rock crusher emptied over your head...