Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...method would be to scan the lost and found columns of a Manhattan newspaper and then take five simple steps...
...pick out the name of a woman who has lost some article of value and call her up "long dis tance collect"; 2) inform this lady that her lost article has been found and will be returned if she will telegraph the necessary round-trip fare to the finder at Asbury Park, N. J.; 3) go to the telegraph office; 4) collect the money; 5) vanish...
Last week a Mrs. F. Perry of Brooklyn, N. Y., had good reason to be vexed at herself after permitting a strange man who said his name was "J. C. Cadr" to swindle her in this manner from Asbury Park, N. J., after she had lost and advertised for a $2,000 platinum brooch...
...Back in Rapid City, S. Dak., President Coolidge heard the complaint of a group of Indians from Quapaw, Okla., who said they had lost $60,000,000 worth of oil royalty rights through the acts of one-time (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall...
...gasoline tax. But now, what will she be able to do with the added wealth of the two-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax which went into effect on Aug. 1 ? Will she have electric-lighted boulevards through the prairies? Will she have marble bridges? Unfortunately, she lost a little of her potential revenue when some 85% of her automobile owners drove to gasoline stations on the day before the tax began, and shouted: "Fill 'er up!" In Illinois the average retail price of gasoline has been 18c, including...