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Despite Mr. Ford's antipathies to Wall Street, as frequently stated in his Dearborn Independent, a recent expression of his views on American business prospects quite agrees with what leading Wall Street bankers have been saying for several months...
From a full page advertisement in The New York Evening Journal it is apparent that Mr. Clarence Saunders is willing to sell shares in Piggly Wiggly Company at $55. The advertisement infers that Wall Street reports that they could be had for $44 is not to be relied upon...
...Cutler takes us up to the prewar days and opens the door upon collegiate revels, and paints the high society of Boston, New York, and Palm Beach in the most elaborate colors. Intimate glimpses are also afforded of the financial machinery of Wall Street, and we are introduced to the calculating type of German Jew in the business world. The change that came over all orioles of society when war was finally declared is admirably portrayed, for Mr. Cutler succeeds in reproducing the spirit that existed in the home, the training camps and the field...
Rood Screens. A reminder of pre-Reformation days was discovered in rebuilding Noyon Cathedral. The shell scarred floors were removed recently, revealing the foundations of an ancient jubé, or rood screen. In olden days the jubé was a very heavy wall separating the chancel from the choir and nave, and from a tribune on top of this wall a cleric read the Gospel and Epistle. The rood screens of today serve to ornament the church rather than to separate the clergy from the laity...
...reply to a query from The Wall Street Journal, Henry Ford stated that, despite his recent purchases of coal properties, timber lands and water power sites, his cash balances still exceeded $200,000,000, and that he had no need or intention of borrowing money in Wall Street. Mr. Ford's latest form of expansion has been to install coking ovens in his new coal properties, in order to sell their numerous byproducts, especially illuminating...