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...might naturally be expected the soda fountains reported an unprecedented demand for cooling drinks of all sorts, one pharmacy reporting the sale of over 400 glasses of orangeade and 100 malted milks on one of the hottest days lest week. The same store consumed over 500 pounds of ice during one day and the fountain manager estimated that at least five tons of ice were used daily by all the various establishments to cool the parched throats of thirsty students...
...issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain" and dispensed miniature simians. To house the crowds expected, the railroad company was asked for a fleet of Pullman cars. Cordell Hull, onetime Democratic National Chairman, Rhea County's representative in Congress, was requested to beg a village of tents from the War Department. In the court house, radio...
...maybe, between finance and mayhem, are items about nameless people who have become news because some extravagance in the comedy of their lives has made them pathetic or some vagary in their afflictions has made them funny. Richard Connell, with one snip of the shears, two strokes of the fountain pen, can transform such items into tales that delight the readers of The Saturday Evening Post, and may afterwards be collected in such a book as this. Other nameless ones who have never had the misfortune to furnish grist for a news item will chortle with glee at Big Lord...
...Bryan turned away and then again facing the student body said: 'Ladies and gentlemen: I've come a long way to address you students at Brown, but I shall certainly have to retire before this magnificent, bubbling fountain of wisdom on my right.' That was the end." Frederick deW. Pingree...
...thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests of Utah-these and similar facts are a valuable increment to the Nation's stories of its past, and better reading than any given dozen of psychological novels...