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...newsboy: "Betcha I know what they'll show next - Vanzetti or one of them strapped down...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...
...queer trial. Judge Fred Raymond is a Protestant. Mr. Reed was born a Presbyterian and is a candidate for President. Mr. Ford, idealist, pacifist and manufacturing moralist, keeps his religion an enigma. William H. Gallagher, attorney for Attorney Sapiro, is a Roman Catholic. Mr. Sapiro, onetime orphanage waif and newsboy, once studied to be a rabbi...
...changed its president. Dr. William M. Burton, who "cracked" petroleum so hard that it yielded twice as much gasoline, was granted his wish to retire, was succeeded by Edward G. Seubert, a onetime newsboy. Soon, no doubt, the success magazines will be asking Mr. Seubert for the story of his rise. It is an epitome of the great U. S. biography, a machinist's helper at 15, a bookkeeper whose accounts balanced, a chief clerk who plugged, a vice president -one of the faithful rewarded when he reached a healthy...
Died. Edward L. Bader, 52, Mayor of Atlantic City, N. J.; in the Atlantic City Hospital, following an appendicitis operation.** He was in turn newsboy (1887), dental student, veterinary student, financial student (Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania), professional footballer (1902), large scale garbage collector, contractor (rebuilt the famed Steel Pier), mayor...