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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Royal, Ill., a turtle climbed upon the west rail of a Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. track, sat down. Along putputted a "trouble car" carrying one H. Duncan, telephone workman, at 20 m. p. h. Workman Duncan was derailed...
Louis Bamberger, 74, founder of L. Bamberger & Co., Newark department store lately bought out by Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. (TIME, July 8), last week announced he would retire and made a "personal gift" of $1,000,000 to be divided among 300 of his oldest, most faithful employes. Said he: "Youth counts in business today. I may appear young, but I know better...
...Champaign, Ill., a Mrs. H. B. Schmidt won a rocking chair marathon when after 280½ hours her only surviving competitor, a man, fell asleep. Said she: "I've spent years training on summer-resort verandas and I'll keep going as long as my machine holds together...
People who like to read palms (or have theirs read), who read characters from handwriting and buy books on personality, were glad to hear last week of a new technique of character analysis. Prof. William H. Blake, instructor in educational dramatics at Columbia University, declared: "A person's salient characteristics can be distinguished from the way he holds himself, from the way he distributes his weight, and the way he uses his arms and legs...
Surgeon Squibb did not live to see this new experiment. He sold his business some 25 years ago to the late Lowell M. Palmer, potent lime and cement man, who installed his son-in-law, Theodore Weicker, to run it. Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb...