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- For seven years Clarence R. Brown, Los Angeles seed man, worked at developing a variety of paprika which would grow in profitable quantity in California's soil and climate. Last year he thought he had it, sowed 100 acres with his first crop. It came up in time to...
Only three other pianists (all world-famed veterans) could top his earning power: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1933 he joined music's royal family by marrying Wanda Toscanini, daughter of the world's No. 1 Maestro. By 1935 he had sold out 350...
Last week when the Ancon made an anniversary trip through the Canal, 155,131 merchantmen of all nations had made the transit carrying more than 500,000,000 tons of cargo, paying an average of $4,000 each, grossing the U. S. $465,000,000 in tolls on an investment...
Besides its line of hearty staples, Charles began to stock delicacies high of tang and price-pate with truffles, cocks' combs and kidneys, diamondback rattlesnake. In 1885 it invented the steamer fruit basket, which proved so popular that Charles & Co. registered and still holds the grocery trade-mark "Bon...
The best harness horses in the world are bred in the U. S. Greatest standard-bred nursery in the world is Walnut Hall Farm, near Lexington, Ky., owned by Dr. & Mrs. Ogden M. Edwards Jr. (nee Lela Harkness, Standard Oil heiress). For the past 23 years, Walnut Hall has averaged...