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...week at Manhattan stores (The Three New Yorkers, Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Mark Cross Co., Saks & Co., Fifth Ave., Lewis & Conger, Ovington's, B. Altman, Elizabeth Pusey) at a Chicago store (Peacock) and at a Los Angeles store (Barker Bros.). It was a three-wheeled barrow, of tea-wagon appearance, containing lock compartments for liquor, an ice receptacle, niches for bottles, glasses, ice-picks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with...
...rare industries in which the horse has not yet become inactive is that of peddling milk. Accordingly there were milk wagon horses; also ice cream wagon horses; commercial delivery horses-all briskly dragging their owner's wagons painted with gaudy signs...
...front of her cakes and confections: "Gentlemen will not, others must not, touch," and John the Orangeman are still historic figures. But there are more modern notables to take their places. Max Keezer, supersleuth, will not soon be forgotten, and the historic remark of Arthur Clement: "The patrol wagon was the only safe place in the Square," will go down through the years even as Mr. Jones's sign. And to uphold professorial traditions, Professor Whitney is strenuously preparing himself against the day when, Professor Merriman's energy failing, the duty of teaching history by action as well...
...were driving in an open motor car from their country home at Lake Geneva, Ill., to Chicago for the funeral of their elder daughter's father-in-law, when their machine met a roadside brawl. Two motor cars, going in opposite directions had tried to pass a hay wagon at the same time. Both cars went into a ditch; the drivers jumped clear and fell to words and fisticuffs. The haywagon stopped as did several machines. Their drivers wanted to see the "fun" and crowded onto the roadway already narrowed by the haywagon...
...Harvester machines are complicated. Inventor Luce's device is simpler and accomplishes less work. But it is no less effective within its range. To demonstrate it at the Waco Cotton Fair, he hitched a mule to a two-wheeled wagon which bore the contraption, a pump that sucked air like a vacuum-cleaner through long flexible tubes. One man led the mule and cart between ripe cotton bushes. At each side of the mule walked a man with a tube from the vacuum pump strapped to a wrist. These men darted their hands at ripe cotton; the tubes with...