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...subjects included in it are numerous. While it is unreasonable, therefore, to expect that a fairly plete training could be given in the College, it should be possible to offer several elementary courses in journalism. A few would be better than none at all, for they would balance the lop-sided emphasic placed on purely creative writing...
...David Sheldon Barry,* who bought in with Editor Mitchell early in 1900, shrewd Mr. Brown lost no time in acquiring enough Pathfinder stock for full control. On Pathfinder's staff went Mr. Brown's sons Barry and Sevellon III. Pathfinder's youthful new staff proposed to lop off "deadwood" in its 1,129,481 circulation, oust questionable advertising. Editorially they promised more photographs, breezier copy, brighter gags. Two things about Pathfinder that Republican Publisher Brown did not plan to alter were its $1 subscription rate and its stand-pat Republicanism...
...last week's demonstration. Estimates of how much of the cotton the machine picked the first time over a row varied from 50% to 75%, the second time 80% to 95%. Estimates of how much the reduction in grade, caused by trash, leaves and possible stain, would lop off the grower's return ranged from $3 to $7 per bale. Frequently heard was the opinion that, even if the machine were practical on huge, flat, high-yield tracts, it would do poorly on small plots, on hilly ground, on low-yield acreage. Sample comment...
...furnished with a series of photographs depicting Alf M. Landon at six months in long skirts; Alf M. Landon going on 3 years in sailor straw and enormous kilts; Alf M. Landon at 4 in an embroidered collar; Alf M. Landon at 7 in breeches and sweater with his lop-eared dog (see cut); Alf M. Landon at 10 in long coat and pancake...
...Jones correct. Apparently unaware that a heavy rain had fallen the night before, the aged gelding romped over the rubbery, cushioned surface to set a new track record (2:04 3/5) over the 1¼ mile course. Astonished horsemen believe that this discovery, applied to other courses, may well lop off several seconds from existing records, will at least remove the bane of all racing men, a slow, wet track...