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...current advertisement of the George Batten Company, Advertising Agents. Needless to say, the Batten Company made Mr. Ford's alleged statement an indictment, not of advertising, but of Mr. Ford. "Armstrong," the Batten ad went on, "is mentioned, and you think of beautiful patterns and colors of linoleum for every floor in the house. Hamilton is the name of a watch so accurate that railroad men largely favor it. Maxwell House is that fine old coffee served by southern aristocracy in the halcyon days 'befoh de wah.'" But "Ford?" Of what, asked the Batten Company...
...scheduled to open Jan. 9- the annual National Automobile Show. Entering, pressmen found the lobby of Grand Central Palace transformed into a Venetian Doge's reception parlor. Artists had been busied for weeks with the panoramas. Trees and pottery had been imported, and even special linoleum with grains in imitation of Italian woods, was sent abroad for. In a court of the arts and sciences, immense statues brooded among Etruscan groves...
...little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...
...goal-guards lined themselves up along the walls of the outdoor handball courts and submitted to target practice from the sticks of volunteer forwards, who made their shots from diminutive linoleum rugs. The session proved harder on the forwards than on the goalies, however, for several times during the afternoon Head Coach Winsor and Goal Coaches Canterbury and Wylde relieved the former at their work. The situation will be improved for today and the two other days of goal practice this week, as more candidates for the forward line of the 1927 team will be on hand to take part...
Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...