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...week. On the scheme of following the Romans while in Rome, he announced that he would conduct now only for a fee and one comparable to that received by Arturo Toscanini (i. e., approximately $2,500 a concert). His services are to be on the market in Manhattan for eight days at which time he will start on a sightseeing tour-to Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, perhaps Canada...
...publishing reached the acme of specialization last week when the first issue of Divorce appeared. It was printed on cheap paper, eight pages, tabloid newspaper size. It contained few advertisements, only one photograph. Newsstands hawked it for 10? a copy. But it had a purpose. Its leading editorial said so: "The purpose of Divorce [a weekly] is not to pander to the seeker for the sensational, but to serve, in such measure as it can, to preserve the sanctity of the American home. Divorce may be seemingly sensational in title, appearance and the character of its news, but it serves...
Captain Dollar bought other ships, sent them to China & Japan. He traveled back and forth over the Pacific. Thirty-three times his wife accompanied him. And with more and more money coming in, he expanded until he owned some 40 ships, eight of them sailing steadily round the world. Thirty-six fly the U. S. flag, four, British...
...time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great experience in handling express but with no railroads to haul...
Birthday for Oliver Wendell Holmes, born March 8, 1841, thrice wounded in the Civil War, for a quarter-century one of the eight Associate Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time." Despite a cold which confined him to his home in Washington, he spent his birthday working on the cases assigned him by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. "I should die if I quit work," he is said to say at intervals...