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Once Senator Smoot tried to start a woolen industry in Provo, Utah. Business genius though he is, he soon gave up. Why? 1) Because it cost him $2.25 a hundred to get wool from San Francisco whereas Bostonians got wool from San Francisco for 75c. 2) Because Bostonians could ship their finished product to Chicago for 50c whereas it cost him $3.40 from Provo...
...partners of Moors and Cabot, and a member of the Boston Finance Commission. He is particularly well qualified to talk on the subject he has chosen, through his various social service activities. Among other positions, he has held that of chairman of the relief commission in the San Francisco earthquake and the recent Halifax disaster...
...killed numbered 248, among them Professor Alizago. The 93 injured were cared for by the Red Cross, which rushed aid from San Jose, five and one-half miles away, and started a subscription for the relief of the many widowed or orphaned by the wreck...
Engaged. Paul Felix Warburg, son of Felix M. Warburg, rich Manhattan banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff, capitalist; to Miss Jean Stettheimer of San Francisco...
...Manhattan, in Chicago, at Denver, Los Angeles, Houston, New Orleans, Quebec?similar rejoicing. Everywhere raucous youth snapped up "Thanks for the Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of string, snatched wheels from baby perambulators, concocted numberless impromptu window displays. Awed jazz fanciers mentioned buggies and bananas in the same gin-whiffed breath...