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...nautical Gay Street, where the Sun soon moved from its first quarters. Publisher Abell looked out on a teeming and sometimes boisterous communal life. Every night, watchmen plied their staves so briskly on the skulls of yowling Baltimore drunks that a rich budget of police court news was always available in the morning. Publisher Abell broke the journalistic tradition against handling such stories, served them up in his columns hot and strong. Baltimoreans liked this kind of "light for all" so well that within a year the infant Sun had 12,000 readers, by far the biggest circulation in town...
...religio-communist societies which dotted the U. S. in the early 19th Century, only the Amana colony, in the Iowa River Valley 18 mi. southwest of Cedar Rapids, remained nourishing in the 20th. In 1932 Amana modified its communal way of life, adopted a form of co-operative capitalism...
...Author Noyes's birth Oneida Community, then 22 years old, was a going concern, its ways natural and agreeable to its colonists.' At walking age he was turned over to the communal nursery-the Drawing Room-was matched for signs of improvement over Outside breeds. His childhood he remembers as a happy time, clouded only with infrequent "criticisms." Meals were tasty and generous, the Bible was made a friendly, interesting book; the spacious brick Mansion House, the workshops and farm were rich exploring grounds, the grown-ups gave Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the children felt important doing part-time...
...imported from Japan rather than England, modernization of the Hyderabad State Railways and the still somewhat novel issues raised by electricity. The words on a modernistic building of which Hyderabad is proud are not in native characters but read "POWER STATION" (see cut, above), and the Nizam has promised communal radio sets to every town and village...
Both of the representative Twoks that reached Manhattan last week showed scenes of the most exciting event in the Eskimo year: the reindeer roundup into the communal corral. Dogs are chasing reindeer, Eskimos are wrestling with stray stags, animals are galloping wildly and villagers are slipping, sliding and shouting...