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...Orange, N. J., one Louis Pruden, venerable bee farmer of Whippany, N. J., stood in the middle of the railroad track facing a speeding Lackawanna train. "The Lord commands you to stop!" cried he loudly...
...President's period of summer relaxation. At Spencer, Iowa, a delegation of 50 Iowans met Colonel Starling, took him on a tour through the vicinity of Spirit Lake. Colonel Starling, with many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution...
...TEXAS GUINAN FREE, HOLDS KISSING BEE" euphonistically wrote a New York headline writer. "Texas" Guinan, night club hostess, once virile out-of-door woman, helped her brother "Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately...
...Significance of such a book as this might be emphasized by its "election" to one of the new monthly book clubs with their impetus-lending memberships. Sociologically it overshadows any novel that may be written this year or another, precisely as a college lecture overshadows a country school spelling bee. Indeed it was delivered in substance during a series of lectures to an international group of students at Geneva. Whatever readers its rapid, crystalline, aphoristic pages fail to drive back to the best in U. S. literature, it will furnish with at least a vivid sequence of that literature...
...Bee. Ask a parochial bystander to name you a newspaper in Galveston, St. Louis, Butte, Jacksonville or either Portland. His face will go blank. Ask him to name you one in Omaha and out will buzz: "The Bee." One of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi, the Bee has stung itself into the U. S. folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year...