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Died. Anton A. Tibbe, 70, corncob pipe maker; in Oakland, Calif. Mr. Tibbe made his birthplace, Washington, Mo., the corncob metropolis, when he discovered a method of fireproofing "Missouri Meerschaums."
Simpson. Last week, however, Banker O'Leary appeared hesitant, and Chicagoans considered another logical candidate for the post. As head of Marshall Field & Co., James Simpson runs Chicago's greatest, perhaps the world's greatest department store. Born in Glasgow, Scotland (1874), James Simpson arrived in the U. S. at...
Booksellers everywhere have had a welcome opportunity to forget their depressing post-Christmas trade. A new light of encouragement has been cast upon their slackened business. Out of the noise and traffic of a materialistic metropolis has come the report that literature still commands enormous prices. For the purchase of...
The Vagabond was well supplied with good will in fact, so thorough going was his genial spirit that it included even Uncle Albert who last year donated a smoking stand in the shape of a purple camel with an ash tray on each hump and a stack of matches in...
Appropriately President Chiang was inaugurated, last week, on the day called "Double Ten"?the anniversary of that historic "tenth day of the tenth month" (1911) when Chinese patriots exploded a bomb at Hankow which was the signal for uprising that toppled down the Dragon Throne. Last week "Double Ten...