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...pond, the pond on the Mount Hermon grounds was drained, in vain. After ten days the inquest adjourned leaving Dr. Speer's death the greatest school murder mystery of the generation. Five months later Dean Elder resigned from Mount Hermon, went to raise poultry on his farm at Alton...
Robert Wadlow, 19, of Alton, Ill. agreed to promote Valspar varnish, by pouring, in advertisements, a teakettle of boiling water from his height of 8 ft. 7 in. upon a shining Valsparred table...
...that Big Baby Bum has now set his initials on the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Queen Mary and the late Hindenburg. Features include the running autobiography of Editor Benson; an itinerary of the best free rail route from Manhattan to the West Coast (Pennsylvania, Chicago & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific) ; some fatherly counsel from Dean Danny O'Brien of the inter mittent New York Hobo College to incipient boes : "It is dangerous when bumming a lump [begging a handout] to tease or provoke the dog. . . . When through with cans, pans...
...Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill. was at the last moment persuaded to exhibit his hulking 8 ft. 7 in. in his first public appearance. Thus in addition to long and long-memoried 8 ft. 6 in. Jack Earle of El Paso, Tex. Ringlings' is still able to boast THE TALLEST HUMAN BEING SINCE THE DAWN OF CREATION...
...extracted a 4% discount on canned soups and vegetables from Maryland's Colonel Albanus Phillips; how A. & P. got 3% off on sardines from R. J. Peacock Canning Co. in Lubec, Me.; how it got a 3% allowance on canned cherries from an Alton, N. Y. packer. Not only did the Commission suspect discrimination: it looked as if A. & P. had merely substituted a 3% or 4% discount for the old 3% or 4% brokerage allowance it used to ask and receive. Under the new law a seller may not pay a buyer a commission in any form whatever...