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...traveled from Monte-Carlo to Genova with a carload of flower-girls and dancers from Budapest. They all were in their native costumes where at Cannes they took part in the annual flower festival. Now, full of song and pranks, they were going back to their romantic Budapest. At every station we stopped they'd ask the porter to pick a few flowers for them--then they'd tickle his ear, give him a kiss and a postcard to mail. And what did they do with the flowers? They were getting ready for a battle. It began just before...
...just after the signing of the treaty of peace had given California to the U. S., came news of a great gold strike there. In Paris the last of the Bourbons signed his abdication, and the gale of revolution that swept Europe ended the age of Metternich. The first carload of grain came by rail into Chicago...
...communique follows: "Having received a fresh carload of black-and-tan orchids from Jackson Hole, New Hampshire, the Young Voters Boondoggling and Temperance League is in a position to donate these touching tokens. Tomorrow's orchid goes to the lucky newly-wed, James Michael Curley, and will be presented on the State House steps by our post commander...
...Christmas gifts in August, but the market for Christmas trees never opens until after Thanksgiving. Last week long flatcars laden with evergreens and snow began to roll into New York and Chicago, focal points of the Christmas tree business. In the four weeks before Dec. 25, at least 400 carloads will be sold in New York, 250 in Chicago. Hundreds of carloads will be sold off the sidings in other cities, bringing U. S. tree dealers a total business of perhaps $10,000,000. Of the profit there can be no certainty. A carload of Christmas trees the day after...
Christmas Tree King in Chicago is a genial Greek named Gust Relias, who will sell this year about 50 carloads of trees. A produce dealer like Fred Vahlsing, his mainstay is tomatoes. If Gust Relias is lucky this year, as he usually is, he will clear $20,000 on Christmas trees before Dec. 25. At the Wabash Railroad concentration point at 27th Street & Ashland Avenue, he will appear daily to auction his trees by carload or by bundle to wholesale or retail buyers. His voice may be drowned out by that of his rival, Izzy Cloobeck, who can be heard...