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...Theodore Roosevelt lately toured the Midwest, minus his dinnercoat, frothing with expletives, trying to discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks of Tammany is important...
Satire and silk legs twinkle in: Funny Face, Hit the Deck, Show Boat, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary...
...would this dame feel, this dame in the box, with the accordion chin, all dressed up in silk and diamonds, if ... she found her path obstructed by a real Marguerite? . . . She can shed crocodile tears over the false Marguerite on the stage-Shed some real tears over the real ones, you big fraud...
...Gotham Silk Hosiery (A wide gamut of poetically named stockings)-$3.697,452. Previous year...
Firms which have not sliced wages are notably the makers of fine draperies, bedspreads, laces, frills, etc., in New Bedford and North Adams, Mass., the vast Naumkeaz Steam Cotton Co. in Salem, Mass., and others in Rhode Island, Connecticut and middle Massachusetts. The woolen and silk mills, although in no booming condition, have not yet pared pay envelopes...