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...Manhattan have organized "odd-lot" cotton exchanges in order to bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating with the authorities to close up these cotton bucketeers, and evidently with success. Yet when the inevitable smash comes, no doubt the legitimate...
...Lady Astor arrived in the House clad in a blue Peter Pan frock, with a white organdie collar, white cuffs and straw mushroom...
...blue Peter Pan frock, a white organdie collar, white cuffs, a straw mushroom...
...against Eugene Criqui, Jimmy Wilde against Pancho Villa-reveals that none show the effects of auricular horticulture. Further research into the personal appearances of the six other ring champions discloses only one cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern disappearance is largely due to the adoption of football headguards by fighters during the endless sparring bouts of the training period...
...danger looms from the south, from Washington. Against the mushroom like business colleges learning has barely been able to hold its own; but the new foe is far more difficult to face. The government has undertaken the extinction of personal education and a scarcety of professors. We are to have education not only in our mail but on it. The bulk of the nation's correspondents will be greeted by the beaming face of George Washington, properly labeled; a smaller number for three cents receive knowledge of Abraham Lincoln; every citizen staying at home during the summer will get post...