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...about the air leviathan's cabin while Mrs. Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, wife of the ship's second-in-command, performed the orthodox rite with a bottle of bubbling wine, and Dr. Rolf Thormessen stood by to receive the vessel in the name of the Aero Club of Norway. A silk flag from King Haakon and Queen Maud was run aloft at the bag's stern. Explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth entrained next day for Oslo, Norway, leaving Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen and the Norge's designer, Colonel Nobile, to conduct the Norge to Spitzbergen as soon as weather favored. There...
...Some of the acquisitions made on the first expedition to China have arrived this year. Notable among them is a painting on silk of the Tang Dynasty, which is thought to have come originally from the great Tun Huang Library, long sealed and low removed for the most part to London, Paris, and Calcutta Most of the object secured by the second expedition have not arrived. They include a few fresco fragments of different periods and an early wooden statue of historical importance...
There is probably no type of job that is more easy to secure, or more difficult to consider favorably than the so-called commission sales job which is offered to a college man at every turn. Every student employment office is hounded with people who would have students sell silk handkerchiefs, ladies' rain coats, shoes, "ships, sealing wax", and I doubt not, "cabbages and kings." In every case a liberal commission is offered and there is "no limit to the amount of money a man can earn...
Three concerns which have been notably successful in this field and meet all of these tests are: The Fuller Brush Company, The Real Silk Hosiery Company, and the Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, the latter manufacturers and distributors of "Wear Ever." A number of men have gone with these companies each summer and have been successful. These companies will again this summer be looking...
LULU BELLE-The tale of a torrid tan courtesan from Harlem, who graduated to a silk-hung Paris boudoir. Principally Lenore Ulric...