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Your magazine TIME has been very highly recommended to me by a friend; so recently while in San Francisco I purchased a copy with the idea of sending in my subscription...
...Baptist publications: "The Baptist papers, like the churches and the 'benevolences,' are chronically hard up. . . . [They carry ads of] Peruna, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Walker's Prostate Specific, and other such quack remedies . . . flaming editorials praising the quackeries of the late Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco. . . . Some of the advertising, especially in the South, comes very close to the borders of the obscene. . . . Authorized Life of William Jennings Bryan . . . Prostitutes. . . . But in general the Baptists do not seem to be readers. The articles in the denominational papers, chiefly by pastors, are devoid of literary allusiveness, and are often illiterate...
...until 1911, when the Government forced the disintegration of that corporation. Its directors last year were K. R. Kingsbury, R. J. Hanna, F. H. Hillman, H. M. Storey, R. C. Warner, A. B. Brooks, H. T. Harper, W. H. Berry, H. D. Collier and R. W. Hanna, all of San Francisco...
...Lawyers Felix T. Smith and Renato Capocelli, and W. F. Hillman, last week traveled from San Francisco to Delaware, laid down $75,100 as an incorporation tax, and came away with a new billion-and-a-half charter for the Standard Oil Co. of California. This re-formation of the California company is considered only the prelude to enormous Coast oil activities. On Feb. 26 the stockholders of the Pacific Oil Co. will meet to consider proposals on reducing that concern's capital stock of $92,000,000 to $1,750,000. The directors will also suggest a merger...
...Manhattan banking firms of Speyer & Co. and J. & W. Seligman & Co. now control the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. (the Frisco). In the past two months, they have quietly been buying up a substantial interest in the Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (the Rock Island), an interest which the directors of the Frisco announced last week had been acquired by them with a view to merging the two systems. The new system will have the longest trackage in the world-13,585 miles, 5,546 in the Frisco and 8,039 in the Rock Island-overrunning by more than...