Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will your self-correcting service dispose of the following item which I clip from the Manchester Guardian Weekly for Feb. 7, 1936. It concerns, of course, the mysterious stranger in the funeral procession of the late King George...
Probably the rarest single item in the collection is a copy of "Letters from Shimane and Kyushu" by Hearn. Of the 100 volumes published in Japan 70 never left the country. There are also fine modern editions of Hearn's works and translations in French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish and German...
...delight the U. S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision outlawing the punitive State tax on gross advertising revenue by which the late Huey Long hoped to make all Louisiana newspapers with a weekly circulation above 20,000 toe his political line. In the office of the New Orleans Item-Tribune the tone of the jubilation was almost personal, for the Item-Tribune pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even...
...foxes are valued at about $1,500,000. Since 1917, the Fromms have sold $16,500,000 worth of pelts, with 1935 sales of $819,000, about 10% of the U. S. silver fox total. Fromm foxes mate in February, the titters appearing in 51 days. Biggest expense item, $300,000 a year, is fox food, mostly horse meat, oatmeal, eggs, fruits, vegetables, all served in sterilized bowls. Biggest risk is high fox mortality. In one year nearly half the Fromm foxes died of encephalitis, but now the Fromms have their sick list down to about 5%. Foxes are killed...
...both ancient and modern, coming from almost all the countries of the civilized world, are included in the bequest. The largest, of American make, measures 12 inches high by 8 inches wide; the smallest, coming from Switzerland, is only one-half by three-quarters of an inch. A unique item is a pack of modern round cards, which the manufacturer asserts are waterproof...