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...summer of '23 I approached the news counter at the Mother Chautauqua on Lake Chautauqua. "What are you wishing this morning?" said the courteous clerk. "I am wishing for what you cannot supply. I am wishing for a current News Sheet which will give me the news, briefly, concisely and tersely, without confusing comments. But, speaking in the language of the man who stood looking at a giraffe: 'Thur ain't no sich animal.' " "Pardon me," said the efficient young clerk, "but there is?here it is," and he handed me TIME. I returned to the cottage veranda and although...
Leaving the rest of the country to think what it liked, the General rushed up to Chautauqua New York, dry mecca. He made a speech He told the Chautauqua that bootlegging rested upon corruption of Government officials, that a major object of his regime was to purify the enforcement personnel. He also stated that his greatest problem was the "market" the unescapable fact that some people wanted. liquor and would pay money...
They had their paper. The Commoner, which in its day must have made not a little money. William also made a good bit from his Chautauqua oratory and from his writings for newspapers and magazines...
Charles W. Paddock, of the Los Angeles Athletic Club, journalist, student, Chautauqua lecturer and sprinter, hotfooted through his 100- and 220-yd. paces creditably, tied the world's record for each. The 220-yd. record, 20 4/5 sec., is Paddock's exclusive property. For 100 yd., 9 3/5 sec. has been sufficient time for several hotfooters...
...President addressed a letter to the Chautauqua Institution at Chautauqua, N. Y., congratulating that famed and now national institution upon the 50th anniversary of its founding...