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Raiding parties of French police, each one accompanied by a magistrate, descended on the homes of seven junk dealers. Only two of the raids were productive. In suburban St.-Ouen police found 50 rifles and automatic pistols, and a table drawer full of cartridges in the home of Leopold Dancart, "collector." Even so the Dancart Collection was not what it was in 1926 when police ferreted out 350 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition and a few machine guns. In the junkshop of one Beranger Gruyer police found 27 automatic pistols...
...Artist Ross by preference paints the jigsaw-tortured mansions which solid New Jersey citizens built and lived in during the last lush years of the 19th Century. Besides the New Jersey pictures, Artist Ross last week showed a series of swift state highways, a snarling pile of junk, several melancholy landscapes, a picture of "The Rocks," Mrs. Henry Clews's Newport residence...
...price. also influence the second-hand market. Thus the listed prices are actual market values in each area. In compiling the Official Guide each month the lowest 20% of reported sales are eliminated to keep the averages from being weighed down by forced or junk sales...
...Party abstained from voting and broken-hearted Vintila died later of apoplexy. King Carol ousted Mihai's mother, Queen Helen (now resident in England under the special favor and protection of George V), and brought to Bucharest his flaunting, red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, daughter of a junk dealer...
...this last bright brown-&-blue-grey picture they saw themselves as they had looked twelve years before, trooping into famed Castle Garden, rowing out to the late Phineas Taylor Barnum's famed Chinese junk Keying which Barnum had built in Hoboken, claimed he had had towed clear from China. On the right a full load of 100 Irish immigrants and baggage, including the box of one "Pat Murfy. For Ameriky," debarked from a three-masted British ship. In this, as in all his work, able Painter Samuel B. Waugh had mixed a slapdash effect with some realism...