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Before the war. New Yorkers found such an animal fair in the smelly old Bowery warehouse of Louis Ruhe, Inc. (pronounced Looie Rooie), world's largest wild-animal dealer. The fair was at its best in March. Then U.S. zoo keepers, searching for animals for the spring and summer zoogoers, would stalk lions and tigers, aardvarks and aye-ayes, capybaras and caimans, tarsiers and toucans, caged in Ruhe's warehouse...
From Europe now come no animals at all. Yet Europe was once the foremost animal market. Collectors all over the world sent their catch to German and English firms, and zoos all over the world bought them from there. The biggest animal importing firm in the world was Louis Ruhe, Inc., of Hannover...
...Yard Free Style--Won by Hutter, Harvard; Colony, Harvard, second; Ruhe, Navy, third. Time...
...Yard Free Style--Won by Hutter, Harvard; Ruhe, Navy, second; Barber, Harvard, third. Time...
Last week's parade was advertised in advance as the last the G. A. R. would ever hold. But the spunky oldsters enjoyed it so much that they proceeded to elect a new commander-in-chief, C. H. William Ruhe of Pittsburgh, optimistically plan a 71st Encampment in Madison, Wis. next year...