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...olden days, before the era of national armies, soldiers were recruited with glittering visions of the loot that would be theirs after the victory...
Today the soldier has still to be recruited. Instead of loot, he is promised a voyage to parts of the great outside world. He is shown on dazzling posters the life that may be his when he is off duty. Looting is not mentioned, as are not drill, fatigues, button-cleaning, etc. In most armies, in fact, looting is a crime...
...committed by the terrified woman. The crimes were robberies from the American Express Co. and the U. S. Parcels Post committed by her friends over a period of several years, which had utterly baffled the police. Thirteen men and one woman were arrested as a result of her confessions. Loot* to the value of $5,000 was recovered, gathered into a large room, and inspected by the evangelist before he left Elmira. The Evangelist. Reverend William A. Sunday is the last of many evangelists whose names have become "household" with the American public. Whitefield (who nearly converted Benjamin Franklin...
...Loot: Women's stockings, 56 pairs; bathing suits, 5; gloves, 8 pairs; camera films, 141 packages; men's shirts, 45; overcoats, 5; shirt-waists, 5; vests, 3; clothes, 2 suits; bath rugs, 3; sweaters, 6; tuxedo suits, 1; men's hose, 1; American flags, 2; lace curtains, 3 pairs; revolver, 1; Winchester rifles, 2; Ithaca shotgun, 1; L. C. Smith shotgun, 1; towels, 1; rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies...
...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...