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...week had lost their recent advances and were slumping to new lows on good weather reports. Cotton held its gains more tenaciously. Oil was firm but the bright spot in commodities last week was a 13-day advance in raw sugar futures which whipped the price from 57¢ to 90?...
Italy reported temperatures of 90?? to 98°. Forest fires swept through the pines of Rome. A two-hour blaze seriously damaged the Villa Medici, seat of the French Academy in Rome...
...books for subscription, closed them at noon "over-subscribed." Forty-five banks and banking houses, whose resources of credit might be considered unlimited, followed the Morgan name on the issue's advertisement. Trading on a when-issued basis on the New York Stock Exchange, the bonds reached 91¼, closed 90??? were the most popular of the day, with a turnover of $1,050,000. Due to the lower price of the offering here, many French investors bought in the New York open market. Exempt from the foreign bond tax in France, the loan was floated there at 98, the difference...
...Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90??. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...second.?But it was Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pronounced correctly Pad-er-rey-ski) who in 1877, a penniless boy of 17, set out on his first concert tour. It was in the dead of winter. He went from one Russian town to another, earned 180 rubles (then about $90???) in 50 concerts, and a reputation that amounted to less. Despairing, he turned his back on a concert career, went to Warsaw, found himself a handful of pupils and a wife who died a year later, leaving him a paralyzed son. He went to Vienna. Teaching tormented him. He turned...