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...Sour Grape. The Spanish expression of pique, chagrin and defiance consisted in the recall to Madrid of Count Quinones de Leon, whose place upon the League Council was taken by one Don Luis Quer Boule, a mere youth, an underling culled from the Spanish Legation at Berne...
Having deposited this diplomatic sour grape upon the Council board. Foreign Minister Yanguas of Spain cabled to the abashed young man instructions that he read to the Council a vague and technical intimation* that Spain may eventually withdraw from the League if not granted a permanent Council seat...
...agencies are popularly supposed to be J. Walter Thompson Co. (which handles such advertising as Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, Cream of Wheat, Fleischmann's Yeast, O'Sullivan's Heels, Ed. Pinaud, Royal Baking Powder, Sun-Maid Raisins, Swift & Co., Sloan's Liniment, Welch's Grape Juice) ; N. W. Ayer & Son (which handles such accounts as American Telephone and Telegraph, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Hire's Root Beer, International Silver Co., National Cash Register, Reynolds Tobacco, Squibb, Steinway Pianos, Victor Talking Machines) ; F. Wallis Armstrong Co. (which has Campbell's soup, Fels-Naphtha soap...
...Kidney Beans, Cream of Tomato Soup, Cream of Green Pea Soup, Cream of Celery Soup, Mince Meat, Plum Pudding, Fig Pudding, Peanut Butter, Cooked Spaghetti, Cherry Preserves, Red Raspberry Preserves, Peach Preserves, Damson Plum Preserves, Strawberry Preserves, Pineapple Preserves, Black Raspberry Preserves, Blackberry Preserves, Crab Apple Jelly, Currant Jelly, Grape Jelly, Quince Jelly, Apple Butter, Preserved Sweet Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Midget Gherkins, Preserved Sweet Mixd Pickles, Sour Spiced Gherkins, Sour Midget Gherkins, Sour Mixed Pickles, Chow Chow Pickle, Sweet Mustard Pickle, Dill Pickles, Sour Pickled Onions, Preserved Sweet Onions, Sandwich Relish, Spanish Queen Olives, Spanish Manzanilla Olives, Stuffed Spanish Olives...
Died. Dr. Charles Edgar Welch, 73, famed President of several concerns forming the so-called "Welch's Grape Juice pool"; at St. Petersburg, Fla., of acute indigestion. He was a lifelong total abstainer, an ardent exponent of prohibition, co-discoverer with his father of "the best process for producing an unfermented and non-intoxicating grape juice," trustee of the Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua N. Y., six times President of Westfield, N. Y., "dry" candidate for Governor of N. Y. in 1916, one-time dentist...