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Migrations of individuals and capital to Florida this season are surpassing anything previously known. The southern state can be reached by automobile, by rail, by boat.Yet this does not seem to mitigate the traffic jam on the southern railroads. Waiting two weeks for Pullman accommodations to Florida is said to be the normal experience. Freight conditions are even worse. All summer most of the Florida lines have been running on full winter schedule, and now, with the advent of the real season for visiting Florida, freight piles up despite every effort of the railroads...
...register of many a Euro pean hotel a column is still provided for "Remarks." Therein occasional goaded Britons will note, "No jam, muffins poor." But in general the jottings are of a honeyed tone: "The water here is as pure as in Akron"; "Perfect service, splendid view"; "I had a real hot bath...
...optical office on the second floor above the drug store that is the social centre of Niles, Mich., Harry Wills, onetime stevedore, leaned his black bulk against a door-jam and watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened...
...Steal more jam and I'll whistle for the green-eared boogey man in the hall closet...
...TIME, June 22, Page 2, gave four ways to decrease the rapidly growing cost of $1 bills, but omitted the most desirable. The chief wear on bills is from crumpling them up in pockets and wallets. Very few carry big wallets that will take bills flat. Women wad and jam them into their tiny purses. Most men and boys merely stuff them in pockets where they are quickly worn out. Expert studies for 50 years have proved that cards or slips can be handled much faster if about the standard international card catalog size; 7.5 x 12.5 cm. (just under...