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...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...make the $3,400 last him five years in France, was finally sent home penniless by the American Legion last autumn. The Harmon Foundation now gives him an occasional meal, provides him with canvas and paints. His winning composition shows an African head beside a heaping vase of spotted Argus orchids (Cypripedium). Such orchids cost about $2 per bloom. Artist Hayden painted them through the plate glass of a Fifth Avenue florist's window...
Negro Newspapers. Leading Negro weeklies are: Pittsburgh Courier (38,760) ; Baltimore Afro-American (24,300); Chicago Defender (110,000); Norfolk Journal & Guide (17,000) ; New York Amster dam News (26,458); New York Age (45,000); Boston Chronicle (not est.); Kansas City Call (16,661); St. Louis Argus (not est.) ; Atlanta Independent...
...enclose a clipping from our Sioux Falls Argus Leader where your mayor and Legion Commauder have called you down for calling the actions of some of the Boys in the recent convention at Boston by the right name. Now please allow me to express myself as I feel as far as loyalty is concerned no one has a better right at eighty years...
Because of Mr. Durant's imported car, an inference seemed obvious. The Mathis has 9 to 12 h.p., sells at around $1,600. Regarding another intrusion, Argus, Paris automobile paper, last week was very definite. According to Argus, Ford Motor Car Co. will soon be manufacturing Isotta Fraschinis in Detroit, while Fords will pour in great volume from Isotta's Italian factories. To handle the plan, a new $5,000,000 company is said to have been formed in Italy, 51% owned by Isotta Fraschini Co. and the Italian Commercial Bank, 49% by Ford. In this exchange...