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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alai (pronounced "hi-a-li")-fast Spanish mixture of handball, lacrosse and court tennis. Long popular in Cuba, jai-alai has invaded the U. S. as far inland as Chicago, where a high-grade fronton with imported professional players affords urbane North Siders polite outlet for their betting instincts...
Universal Leaf Tobacco. ...... 60-Hi...
...Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital "R". It is all rather amusing, however, and much better than a great deal...
After the show was over, there was an unpleasant aftermath of surreptitious doings which further emphasized the mercenary aspect of dog shows. Someone administered a dose of arsenic to Hi-Point Monoplane, prize collie puppy, owned by one William J. Burgess. So potent was the dose, that Hi-Point Monoplane died a day or so later, to the rage, sorrow, and financial loss of his owner. Someone else fixed a beady and covetous eye on Warily Gang Leader, champion wire-haired fox terrier, kennel mate and spouse to parexcellent Talavera Margaret. While the dog was being shown by her owner...
...official cheer of this sorority: Ring, ching, ching. Ho, hippy, hi. Ra, ro, arrow, Pi Beta...