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...wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against his cheek. He knew where he could get them. They were sewed on the bridal finery of Jewish girls in Poland; they were beaded on the silk and velvet covers of the Blessed Scroll of Laws in synagogues. Cossacks brought pearls to the Polish Jews; carried them from beyond the Caucasians, from Bokhara, and Tiflis and Bagdad; traded them to Jews for prized utensils. But these Americans, sports of war and wealth, knew nothing of pearls . . . only...
...Lobster Silk. The U. S. Department of Commerce received a report that one Dr. G. Kunike had been saving lobster and crab shells, bringing the chitin or bony structure thereof into colloidal solution, passing it through a filter press and drawing it out into artificial silk threads of greater tensile strength than the cellulose imitation. Optimists saw a new industry arising, out of fish-house garbage cans...
...once said 'What an extraordinary way of entertaining one's guest-sit him down and make speeches at him.' In Boston, I humorously suggested shooting a particularly windy speaker. In Chicago, I was guarded by eight policemen, dressed both night and day in evening clothes, including silk hats. Perhaps never before or since has U. S. society been so excitedly adulatory...
...silk-tented Bal Tabarin room of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Kiwanians were there assembled last week to celebrate Armistice Day. It was not the one tense moment for the first great political speech of a man's career; neither was the speaker, General John Joseph Pershing, expected to entertain businessmen with anything more than patriotic remarks, dully pronounced...
Hosiery. Stock control of Onyx Hosiery, Inc., was bought last week by James Hammond of Hayden, Stone & Co., Manhattan investment house. He is a director and treasurer of the Gotham Silk Hosiery Co. and therefore his purchase, considered with the present refinancing of both concerns, is taken to indicate a merger...