Word: cards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shipment to Aurora. When he had sold 20 paintings and sculptures he declared the fair " an artistic camp meeting." Said he: " Aurora buys more paintings per capita than any other city in the U. S. . . . The people of Aurora believe that art is a big asset and drawing card to the fair, held there annually. This year they came as far east as New York with an offer to bring them the best art works possible. . . . They backed up their enthusiasm by sending a liberal check to cover the cost of the project." Pieces in Mr. Barrie's shipment...
Alfred C. Bossom, Manhattan architect, has invented a device for saving persons accidentally locked in bank vaults from suffocation. It consists of a tank holding a 24-hour supply of oxygen. The locking of the door automatically switches on an electric light which illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which...
...company continues to employ him, the union strikes at that colliery until he is discharged or pays his dues. Such strikes are contrary to the agreement with the operators but they are frequent. Under the checkoff, the union has only to get a man to sign a card for his dues to be taken from his wages, and the union has no more trouble about his dues in future months...
...called on by Marshal Foch, who leaves card when told...
...Marine Worker is an interesting illustration of I. W. W. propaganda in use on the Pacific Coast and elsewhere, and written in the vernacular, is intriguing to the average reader. Its communications are signed " Yours for the next big strike, Del. T. R. 598, Card X58406...