Word: j
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activity in the bond market, there was tossed last week the biggest single bond issue since 1926. It was $100,000,000 of 5% convertible debentures of the famed Texas ("Texaco") Co. Just as the big 1926 issue of $120,000,000 of 5% Standard Oil Co. of N. J. bonds was oversubscribed immediately, so last week's Texas offering was sold between its release in the late afternoon and 10 o'clock the next morning...
...telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago public schools children marched two by two into assembly halls, listened to broadcasting, later told their fathers, many of whom complained by letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they had bought from scalpers and were sent home. Mrs. Stanley Field dropped a $3,000 brooch, received it back from an honest finder, came next day without jewels. . . . All these things and more happened last week...
...Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
...Trenton, N. J., celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement...
Harrah Case. U. S. Citizen Charles J. Harrah built himself a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sand into Havana. In 1917 his tracks were torn up, apparently at the order of one Manuel de La Cruz, member of the Cuban congress. The prosecution quailed before the offender's position as a national legislator. Mr. Harrah valued his road at $700,000, sued also far loss of income. Both Mr. Harrah and the Cuban government have consented to arbitrate this case...