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...Virginia first diggings fortnight ago showed the tubers to be so small that the Department of Agriculture was asked to reduce minimum Government standards for No. 1 grade potatoes from 1⅞ in. in diameter to 1½ in., which would make No.1 grade equivalent to what Nos. 2 & 3 were last year. Crop damage cut the period of Florida shipments, which began in March, from the usual two months to five weeks. The flow from South Carolina stopped fortnight ago after moving only half as long as usual. The Department of Agriculture has not yet estimated this year...
Nellie Granger, registered nurse, insisted on returning to the wreck with mountaineers. Near the smoking debris of the Sun Racer they found still alive the two passengers who had occupied seats Nos. 7 and 11. One was Mrs. Ellenstein, with two broken legs, the other a Cleve-lander named Challinor, whose ankles were shattered. Miss Granger ministered to them as best she could until State troopers arrived. Later, in a hospital, the hostess could not remember exactly what had happened. She thought she had been able to pull the Newark Mayor's wife and Challinor from the cabin before...
...colonnade of New York University's Hall of Fame there are niches for 150 busts. Sixty-nine of the niches are filled. Last week the 101 bigwigs who serve as Electors filled niches Nos. 70, 71 and 72 as follows: William Penn, Simon Newcomb, Grover Cleveland...
...speed record had been attempted on salt. . . . I passed my first marker, a huge 'No. 6' three feet high, painted on a large square board. This indicated to me that I had six miles to go before I reached the beginning of the measured mile. . . . I passed Nos...
...Craftily the Elders are represented as planning to gain control of the land, induce ruinous speculations, and knife the Christian churches while pretending to protect them. And meanwhile, according to Protocols Nos. 3 and 5: "We will represent ourselves as the saviors of the laboring classes who have come to liberate them from this oppression by suggesting that they join our army of Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, to whom we always extend our help under the guise of the fraternal principles of the universal solidarity of our social masonry. . . . We will adopt for ourselves the liberal side of all parties...