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Catfish in Season. Perhaps the greatest change-and the hardest for Cap'n Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down...
News as glittering as Golconda came out of the Department of the Interior last week. The Department described what it rapturously called "the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever witnessed...
...Golconda, Ill., Mrs. Jake Eichorn's cactus, which usually blooms on Thanksgiving Day, bloomed a week early. Mrs. Eichorn is a registered Democrat...
...with his pennies - whereas $5,000 is his approximate daily income, his jewels have an estimated value of $150,000,000, he reputedly has salted down $250,000,000 in gold bars and his capital totals some $1,400,000,000, not to mention the fabled "Mines of Golconda." In English poesy, these disgorge a never-ending stream of diamonds. They lie immediately west of the city of Hyderabad, India's fourth largest metropolis (pop. 400,000). frowned upon by the beet-domed tombs of the Royal Family (see cut, p. 22) about five miles out in the suburbs...
...stock on its mining list. Last week the San Francisco Mining Exchange celebrated its 68th birthday the day the New York Mining Exchange opened. But seldom now do flurries cause great changes in its present stocks which include Carrie, Goldhill, Pony Meadows, Uncle Sam, White Caps, Lucky Strike, Golconda...