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...President Coolidge went to Pittsburgh. Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, conducted his chief & Mrs. Coolidge to the Mellon mansion near the smoky fork of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers. In the morning they breakfasted with the Secretary's brother, Richard B. Mellon, in another Mellon mansion. Then President Coolidge drove through the streets to visit, among other places, the Fort Pitt blockhouse and the Washington Cross-his Chief of Staff (see p. 10). a time when George Washington was swept off a raft in the icy Allegheny and almost drowned...
That the ardent book-worm who mistakes the pits for the subterranean halls of Widener may not be drowned by the accumulated rains of Cambridge, the conduit is drained into a pit back of the New Lecture Hall. Here also is the fork in the tunnel which leads to the Peabody Museum. Traces of all this renovation may be found in sporadic puffs of steam near Memorial Hall and in increased comfort in the altered buildings...
Secretary, Little Fork Valley Agricultural Ass'n. Cook, Minn...
Last week champions of the oyster arose with claims of even greater atrocities. Consider the oyster, said they. First, he (or she) is ripped unkindly from the shell, stuck through the flesh with a fork, dipped in a smarting pepper cocktail, partly mangled by human teeth, squeezed down a narrow canal, smothered to death in the gastric juices of the human stomach. How can civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium...
...life. With all the sincerity she can command for a repulsive duty, she strives to conquer her own antipathy. It is not strong enough. When Benjie stays late for choir rehearsal, she locks him out of the house. When Benjie defends his conduct she rushes upon him with a fork, more murder in her maddened heart than in her weak hand...