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...bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger...
Yesterday, a large, swarthy man was taking a crate of rolls into the famed Adams House special kitchen. As he started down the steps, a couple of the rolls fell off, but this hardly deterred the delivery man. Stopping he scraped the few rolls together from the pavement, carefully shook the dust off them, tenderly replaced them in the crate and continued...
...weeks ago correspondents saw it being loaded on a truck for shipment to the coast, packed in a crate that cost the Leftist Government 7,000 pesetas. ¶ Bombed and destroyed by Rebel planes was the Duke of Alba's gigantic Liria Palace, but it had already been seized as a museum, its paintings shipped to the coast. In Valencia last week paintings of the Duke of Alba, which the general public has never had a chance to see, were put on public exhibition...
...most amusing contrasts to Cambridge I met with. To start with, the idea of a daily newspaper run (and bought) by undergraduates is a stretch of imagination for anyone with any knowledge of the way Cambridge papers work. Then in place of the single room, littered table and crate of beer from which the soul of Cambridge flows to an avaricious printer, there is a complete building with its own press, private rooms for about fifteen different sorts of editor, dozens of telephones and typewriters. a dark room where photographs can be transformed into blocks at lightning speed, an editorial...
...Army officers climbed into the hold of the Mar Cantabrico, found 32 field kitchens which the Army had sold as junk, sternly forbade the ship to sail until the stenciled "U. S. Army" was painted out on the kitchens. Customs agents forced a big crate of shoes to be torn open because it weighed 400 lb. and they thought shoes should not weigh so much...