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...Harvard Band. For according to rumor, the musicians who so unfortunately stayed at home not only possess the most gigantic drum in the history of Lafayette, Indiana, but are a group of men whose manoeuvres on the gridiron are equalled only by the warriors once in moleskin and silk. There was a time, just after the war, when the Harvard Band had a monopoly on football music, or at least on intermission parades; but those happy days are gone with the rest of the happy Harvard football days, and the marching monopoly exists no longer. Last week, to sure...
Professor Roorbach encountered various dangers in the course of his trip. He told of one experience he had with the bandits who infest the waters of the great silk growing region of the delta near Canton. While the silk-cargo boat on which he was a passenger was rounding a curve in the stream, a group of some 30 bandits, armed to the teeth, was seen on the bank. The silk boat was heavily armed against such a contingency, and cleared decks for action. But the bandits had a large sign displayed which read. "We are today only attacking fishing...
...silk-cargo boat was allowed to past unmolested, and Professor Roorbach watched the bandits from a concealed position...
...Carlin's and it is this very similarity that prompts WEAF to assign them together. One broadcaster cannot talk ceaselessly; when he is resting it is less confusing to have a substitute voice of close resemblance. Mr. Carlin was a boyhood orator in Manhattan public schools. He entered the silk business. He went to war. He joined WEAF as an announcer and is now manager of the Manhattan key station...
...come 10,000 miles from its northern worm, raw silk and silk goods, silk for hose and gown and pajama and whatnot. Chinese had tended it; Japanese had borne it across the Pacific of which commerce they are masters. It had arrived at Vancouver, safely unloaded from the N. Y. K.'s* Paris Marn. Safely it was stored in an 18-car train of the Canadian Pacific-$6,000,000 of silk. The world first heard of it when $1,500,000 of it (five car loads) lay wrecked and storm-strewn in the valley of Frazer River, only...