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...Roscoe Crafton's idea. Set a-thinkin' by the national publicity given the Corn Belt's annual corn-husking championship, he got some fellow cotton merchants to form an association last winter, sow the seeds of a national cotton-picking contest. "Wide open to the world" it would be. So they sent invitations to the Cotton Belt's Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, asking them to sponsor an entrant apiece...
...born in Crafton, Tex. I am 53 years old and as a boy I sold chicken sandwiches at the railroad station platform at Bowie. I might also add that I waited table at a hotel, sold soda-pop at the ball games and races on Saturdays, sold newspapers, worked for a doctor for two years taking care of his horse and buggy, sweeping out his office and, in addition, milked a cow-all for my board to enable me to go to school. I am not sensitive as to my age or ashamed of my early efforts to earn...
...Texas is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, who reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder. As is his wont, he promptly gave everybody in the party a $20 Stetson hat. Born 53 years ago at Crafton. Tex., Amon Carter used to sell sandwiches on the station platform at Bowie, newspapers on the Fort Worth streetcorner where now rises the office building of the Star-Telegram, which he bought eight years ago with money made in cattle, oil, advertising. The presses which thunder all day long...
...Moon Run Mine, near Crafton, Pa., it occurred to them to find out how much it actually costs to mine one ton of coal. Division Manager Harry M. White of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., close-lipped subordinate, refused to reveal the pertinent figures...
...principal characters of the cast are: Jocelyn St. John Lowiscroft, Miss Fredericka Gilbert Jocelyn St. John, her cousin, Miss Betty Potter James Archibald Bennett, C. W. Putnam Eleanor Coolidge, Miss Mary Morris William Carlton, W. G. Stetson Ted Lowiscroft, J. A. Crafton 2G. Colonel Gay, E. L. Beach '13 Eggerton, W. L. Bullock '17 Aunt Bell, Miss Marion Churchill June, Miss Florence Lewis Hotel Clerk, C. B. Weatherell...