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...Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew
...gave up graduate work to become an instructor at Yakima High School and support his family. After two years of saving he had $600. He resolved on an insurance selling venture, bungled it and lost all but $75. So he registered at Columbia Law School in Manhattan, expressed his trunk ahead, set out himself as "herder" for a shipment of sheep going to Chicago for slaughter...
...their canoes long before white men came with sloops and schooners, and all the modern devices for safety on the waters. He saw the waterfront of Portland, a city set on an hill, and a commercial center of no mean import, with its huge grain elevators of the Grand Trunk, its docks full of freight steamers of grain and of and lumber, and its fleet of ferryboats plying out to the islands in Casco Bay. It was like a miniature New York...
When the last trunk has been delivered, the Railway Express Agency settles down to the less strenuous but equally efficient job of shuttling hundreds of students laundry cases weekly between Cambridge and home towns for students who wish to have efficient laundry service to their homes and back to college dormitories at a very small cost. These shipments may be sent either collect or prepaid...
...movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both of whom mistake Pat for the thief. The gangster has orders from the Big Fellow...