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...Little John likes raspberry jam and he knows his mother has a jar on the top shelf of the pantry. When his mother goes out, he gets it and covers his face with it. She catches him and tells him if he does it again she'll break his neck...
...Nation offered prizes to undergraduates who should perform manual labor during the summer of 1925 and describe their experiences in an essay. The winning articles are now being published, the first one written by a woman student of Antioch College who worked in three different factories successively ladling jam into bottles, slipping candy into little frilled cups, and finally behind a mountain of books in a bindery examining each volume for imperfections. The essay amply justifies The Nation's experiment and the theory upon which it is based...
...Francisco papers dealt at length upon "the awful traffic jam" precipitated by the opera; and exulted over San Francisco's "blazing diamond horseshoe...
Hungary. An ice jam three miles wide and as high as a six-story building piled up in the Theiss River. The Hungarian army expended three-fourths of the stock of ammunition allowed to it under existing treaties in a vain effort to shoot up this veritable iceberg, which caused the famed Tokay wine region to suffer a flood loss of ten billion crowns ($100,000). Angry Hungarians ran about shrieking that the Roumanian Government had aggravated the floods by opening certain sluice gates in violation of the Treaty of the Trianon...
...Premier, the Minister of Finance, M. Louis Loucheur, had drawn up a stop-gap financial bill the provisions of which could be justified only by the undoubted fiscal emergency with which France is faced. Of all Frenchmen, M. Briand alone was thought to possess sufficient prestige to jam this bill through the Chamber and Senate. Its provisions : 1) The immediate issue of 7½ billion paper francs by the Bank of France; 6 billions to go to the depleted Treasury, and 1½ billions to supply the needs of commerce...