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...present our counter claims. A couple of years ago we undoubtedly could have bought recognition for a good price, such as the partial acknowledgment of the Tsar's debts or large concessions to foreign capital. Now we have received recognition without paying a penny or delivering a single carload of raw material...
...twentieth century we consider all this prayer mongery ridiculous. And that pious souls from the thirteen colleges in the Middle west should send solemn prayers to "Godless Harvard" in carload consignments, in bales and bundles, like free sample packages of Post Toasties, seems to me scarcely less...
Citizens of Aurora, 111., obtained from the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan, a carload of 215 paintings and bronzes, and exhibited them for nine days at the Central States Exposition in Aurora. From other cities came other pictures and bronzes -enough to fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the Fair Ground. Manager Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries accompanied his 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...
...best sellers for the coming year? Nobody knows and everyone seems to care. Only two seem almost certain of the widest popularity?The Mine with the Iron Door (Harold Bell Wright) and The White Flag (Eleanor H. Porter). Both authors sell by the carload rather than the volume; their publishers are always sittin' pretty financially. And then there is The Bover by Joseph Conrad, now running serially in the Pictorial Eeview, to be published probably this Winter?and Charles G. Norris, addicted to monosyllabic titles, will produce this month a little thing called Bread ?and there are others?...
...became exceedingly acute. A combination of the brewers in the Central West sought to defeat my efforts. They would ship into Indian Territory all sorts of liquors under these two per cent labels; they would even ship it in, guaranteeing the purchaser against my seizure. If I seized a carload of liquors and destroyed it, the dealers would not have to pay for the same. The brewers stood the loss. The brewing interests also employed most of the more prominent attorneys of Indian Territory, who sought by repeated arrests, by attempted injunctions and by a large number of damage suits...