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...notable user of cotton paper as stationery is Louisiana's Governor Huey P. Long. His letters go out as a cambric-like cloth sized with kaolin, with a smooth web finish and high tensile strength. (The letterhead carries the State seal in blue-a floppy mother pelican feeding her young encircled by "Union, Justice & Confidence.") Explains Governor Long: "There is agitation down this way that we should enlarge our use of cotton goods and some of we more or less super-cotton patriots, including fellows like myself who have picked cotton 16 long hours...
...statement has appeared on the 1931 earnings of the ancient (incorporated: 1866) Reversible Collar Co. of Boston. Although Reversible Collar has added surface-coated and cloth-lined paper to its lines of reversible cuffs, collars and fronts, last year's profits were $22,000 against...
Last week the old shaft was re-opened for repairs. School was out but officials were hastily summoned. Crouched at the bottom of the shaft, by its side a jackknife, a pair of work shoes, a few shreds of moldering cloth, lay a dusty skeleton. The skull was cracked. It had been a youth of from 16 to 20 years old. It had been there perhaps ten years. That was all: none could remember any disappearances or accidents. Many students had come & gone...
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...London, if I am invited to visit His Majesty the King Emperor, I will wear nothing more than that which is the symbol of India's distress-the loin cloth...