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When Flaxie & Dan tried and failed again, their owner threw down his hat and gave up hope. Then lanky Russell Sando drove out the Statler Farm's former champions. Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he quieted his prancing giants, then eased their reins and let them lean into their collars. When he clucked them "G-up!" they heaved, set leather straining and tug chains tight. Whipping and rein-slapping are not allowed but were not needed to keep Rock & Tom's huge hoofs pounding...
Last week 8,000 people crowded Hillsdale's fair grounds to see Contractor John Adrian's record-holders, Flaxie & Dan, brought from Williamsville. N. Y.. defend their laurels against their old rivals, George H. Statler's Ohio team of roan and sorrel Belgians, weighing 4,700 Ib. For five years one or the other of these teams has always held the world's record. Once they broke it three times in one day and they have dragged it up to unbelievable heights...
...that time in a public auction room at No. 18 Vesey St., Manhattan, Adrian H. Muller & Son will sell for J. P. Morgan & Co. the collateral pledged by the Brothers Van Sweringen for loans and accumulated interest now amounting to $50,000,000. Among the securities which the House of Morgan and allied banks took over when the loan fell due last May was stock-control of the holding companies through which the Van Sweringens rule virtually all their vast possessions. On the block will go about 50% of the common stock of Allegheny Corp., representing...
...public's interest in the auction will centre on the 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany, worth $3,000,000 at the market price. A notable procession of blasted business dreams have passed across the auction block of Adrian H. Muller & Son, including the shades of the Insull utilities and Continental Shares, once the pride of that other Clevelander, Cyrus Stephen Eaton. But never before has such a private empire been sold substantially intact...
...Adrian J. P. LaRue, 17, of River road, Ann Arbor, Mich.; University of Michigan High School; son of Carl D. LaRue, Associate Professor of Botany, University of Michigan; was tied for first place in scholarship in his class, and did outstanding work in the composition of music...