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...same issue, describing the "Anti-Tammany Cow," your repeated incorrect use of "udders," indicating the cow's teats, will amuse farm-raised TiME-readers-perhaps a more numerous section than you suspect. For the benefit of TIME'S editors: a cow has but one udder, the gland which secretes milk. The appendages on each quarter, from which the milk is drawn, are correctly known as teats- inelegantly but rather universally pronounced "tits," Mr. Webster to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope no newborn delicacy prompted TIME'S lapse from the correct biological description...
...point out to you that this figure is incorrect inasmuch as the Department in their estimate of Aug. 8, placed the crop at 15,584,000 bales...
...refer to K. D. Dawson as "Seattle's potent shipmaster." This is incorrect, for from the States Floor of the Porter Building, Portland, he runs the States Steamship Co. (Trans-Pacific), Pacific & Atlantic Steamship Corp. (Intercoastal) and also the Pacific European Line (Pacific...
Your article concerning the "gigolos" which the Ambassador Hotel of Hollywood has on its staff is incorrect concerning their official title. Appearance was in TIME, July...
...issue of July 13 has a paragraph on "Heroes-1881 Man." One sentence regarding President Garfield's journey is historically incorrect. He was leaving Washington for Gallon, Ohio, where he was to be the speaker the following day, at a "Soldiers and Sailors Reunion." I was a 16-year-old girl, assisting my mother to prepare for guests for the following day. Governor Foster ("Calico Charlie") was to be one of my father's guests. The impression is indelible of my father coming from his office, and as I put it, "staggering down the hall," with the news...