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...which Mr. Long paid $207,763.57. There were Oriental rugs in every bathroom. House and contents were listed on his personal ledger as an $11 asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse...
...inferior to most recent Hollywood musicomedies, its narrative method stodgy, but are likely to approve the decor, Frederic Norton's music, the acting of the only performer in the cast whose name is familiar to them. Anna May Wong wriggles her eyebrows ably when placed on the slave auction-block, writhes in splendid style when compelled to turn the winch that opens the door of the robbers' cave...
...marketing of tobacco products is a triumph of modern salesmanship but the marketing of raw tobacco is about two steps removed from trading with the Indians, who gave the world the weed. When his crop is cured the farmer takes it to a local warehouse for the traditional auction. There he does not have to take the prices offered. But since the farmer is perpetually hard up and the principal tobacco buyers can be numbered on the fingers, he actually has little choice. His neighbor at another warehouse may receive a higher price for the same grade of tobacco...
Blond, horsy and 42, President Hanes has no illusions that his tobacco board will revolutionize the tobacco industry overnight. It will no more replace the auction than the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges have replaced the South's spot markets. But its quotations will give the farmer a yardstick; its facilities will enable him to sell his crop when he pleases, not simply when the auctions are held. And more important, if the market is active, it will permit growers, dealers, manufacturers, importers, bankers to buy insurance against price changes by hedging...
...Christie's auction rooms, London, a set of self-sketches by Charlie Chaplin, once the property of the late Sir William Orpen, was bought for $18 by Sir Alec Martin, Christie's partner...