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...winner, Will Largent of Merkel, Tex., who raises Herefords. So was thin-faced Walter Biggar from Dalbeattie, Scotland, who has been judging the Exposition's champion steers for nine years. So were some 45,000 spectators daily who looked at some 13,500 animals on the hoof, largest assembly on record. A new corn king was crowned-C. Worth Holmes of Joy, Ill. A new wheat king was crowned -Frank Isackson of Elfros, Saskatchewan. A new healthiest boy and two healthiest girls (tied for first place) were named-curly-mopped Glen L. Sherwood, 19, 6 ft. tall...
...left for many a middle-of-the-roader, this novel is squarely in the centre of the modern experimental path-a path broad enough to accommodate Ulysses and the books of John Dos Passes, but on which such backtracking behemoths as Anthony Adverse never set hoof. Fated to be overlooked or judged "queer" by the general reader, Yesterday's Burdens will excite the attention of those who are more interested in whither the novel is going than in whence it has come...
...keeping Jews socially cohesive during the centuries. The laws, however, have their sensible loopholes. In a case of life-or-death, a Jew may eat anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher. Nor is one that dies a natural death (disease might have caused...
...Jolly John and his crowd continue to play ball with the administration, and both parties find room in the trough. Meantime a series of mysterious murders, in which the victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends...
...Mayor Chéron had made his plodding, Norman way in Paris to the unexciting post of Minister of Agriculture (1922-24). He made it exciting, became the idol of French farmers. No Minister of Agriculture before or since has shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...