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...University has been removed from the slot-machine and vending business in which it was placed under the terms of Artemus Ward's will, filed last March, in which the late Artemus Ward bequeathed to Harvard the business of Artemus Ward Inc. The advertising company, which controls the merchandising and newsstand privileges of the Inter borough Transit Company, has recently been purchased by Barron G. Collier...
...business of Artemus Ward, Inc., was valued at between two and three million dollars at the time of the bequest. The amount which will fall to the University through the sale of the company has not been made known...
...least three wives. Brigham Young, as President of the Elders, had ultimate powers of selecting and "sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely. Artemus Ward exaggerated the size of the Young household from a count of the stockings on its wash-line. Actually, Brigham married only 27 times, had but 56 children...
...Every school child knows the prowess of George Washington, but few grown men know what a fortunate accident he was. The Continental Congress chose him to head our Armies only as a matter of politics. His military record was unknown. John Hancock and Artemus Ward wanted to command but, to appease the South, George Washington, the "quiet husband of the richest woman in America," was chosen, regardless of qualifications, to lead our Armies. Similarly, LaFayette was made a Major General for his zeal, his illustrious family, his connections...
...Comic and Humorous Reciter is catholic in its tastes ? specimens of both English and American humor are admitted. Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...