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...last weeks of summer, determined movie customers stood in line, the trade press reported, and through Labor Day "box offices bulged . . with the biggest load of coin many had ever taken over a weekend. . . "What they stood in line to see, according to Variety...
Hunneman, and Company of 5 Arlington Street, Boston, has been contracted by the University to manage the hotel and is attempting to arrange the installation of coin-operated washing machines on each of the floors...
...South, farmers were still planting root crops in the dark of the moon, and above-the-ground crops when the moon was full. This practice, probably as old as agriculture, was supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
Thus unmasked as the leader of a counterfeit gold coin ring, the 24-year-old, French Canadian Besson admitted that high finance was in his blood-he was a nephew of the late, crack-pate deputy Philibert Hippolyte Marcelin Besson, called "the Incredible," famed for his Ed Wynn hairdo and his Europa Dollar. The Incredible, who flourished in the '303, had a theory: Europe could cure its ills in a jiffy by adopting his "international currency based on hours of labor." He burned up the Continent's roads on a motorcycle with wide-open cutout trying to peddle...
Willie to William. For Willie was not born a reformer. Kansas was a satrapy in the expanding empire of the Santa Fe Railroad, and coin from that corporation's treasure house financed individual political fortunes and augmented the general prosperity. Not until depression and the rise of Populism (whose grievances and politics were later to find expression in Roosevelt I's Square Deal and Roosevelt II's New Deal) did Willie begin to brood upon the other half at all. By then Willie had become William Allen White, owner and editor of the Emporia Gazette, which...