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...started in 1873 by Conductor Theodore Thomas. It is a colossal affair, involving many amateur singers (610 grownups this year, 703 school children), besides the Cincinnati Symphony and imported soloists. The programs are meticulously prepared and the performances attended by social pomp corresponding to that which Manhattan and Chicago bestow on their opera. Cincinnati newspapers devote columns to describing the costumes of local dowagers and debutantes...
...livelihoods change. Boss Tweed (1861-72) went in for peculation and bribery. Boss Murphy (1902-24)-brought the city contract racket to its juiciest fruition. Nowadays construction bonding is the most remunerative of Tam-many-controlled activities, and judgeships are the most luscious appointment plums which the Hall can bestow...
...indignation at being accused by the Bishop of writing "the most filthy, insidious and cleverly-written piece of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification" carried him away. The 3500 will continue behaving as well-groomed and decent citizens. The limelight will bestow its honors on everyone connected with the affair, except possibly the Prime Mover for whose worship the Cathedral of St. John the Divine was built...
...This is just another notable example of the public service which The Literary Digest strives to bestow. . . . But The Literary Digest does not confine its service to these more striking devotions to public welfare. Every issue of the magazine is designed to help better mentally, socially, and civically, every one who reads...
...dreams, We enter the region of light And, hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And there uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend. Macfadden is the name which the Chamber of Commerce of Redding, Calif, will bestow upon the central peak of the Castle Crags (near Mount Shasta) at a ceremony in August. The proposed dedication: "This peak is dedicated, by grateful fellow citizens, in recognition of the public citizenship of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, in his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits...