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...General Umberto Mobile's little yapping terrier bitch is Titina. *James A. G. Davey (Tree Surgery) said, upon reaching Manhattan last week after a tour across Africa, "I will never again make that trip without firearms, and I strongly advise against any one else doing so." An Afric native, it appeared, had frightened Mr. & Mrs. Davey by rising up out of tall elephant grass and hurling at their motor car a spear. *George V is Emperor of India alone and King of the remainder of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...birth state of the Anti-Saloon League is inscrutable political ground this year. The Anti-Saloon League apparently demonstrated continued vitality in last week's primary. Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah Burton of Cleveland (Republican) and U.S. Senator Cyrus Locher of Cleveland (Democrat). But the Wet-Dry issue was confused. The victorious Messrs. Davey...
Readers of national advertising quickly recognized the accent of his statement as the same accent that appears in advertisements for the Davey Tree Expert Co., such as: "Davey Tree Surgeons will not treat any tree for you that in their judgment is too far gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer...
...Treeman Davey and Congressman Davey are the same. A brother, James A. G. Davey, helps with the tree business, as eastern representative and vice-president. But Martin L. Davey it is who cultivated to many-branched, nationwide spread the company planted in 1908 at Kent, Ohio, by the late John Davey, their father and "the father of tree surgery." In addition, Martin L. Davey has found time to be Mayor of Kent, Ohio (1914-1918) and a member of every Congress since the 65th except the 67th, when few Ohio Democrats survived the Harding gusher...
Further excerpts from Treeman Congressman-Candidate Davey's gubernatorial prospectus...