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...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
What mummery was this? Night Air Mail planes do not land on lonely Pennsylvania oat-fields at midnight without cause. Yet it could not be an accident. Night Air Mail planes do not have accidents. Uneasily, the campers gaped at their ghostly visitor...
...called Foreign Policy, because it had neither head nor tail. Another Democrat declared on the floor of the House: "I shall not be surprised if soon it will be heralded to the people that the President is riding this wooden horse for the purpose of cutting down the oat bill at the White House stable...
...luck of the long unlucky "grain belt" remained good. Wheat slumped somewhat, after its recent sharp advance. But its place was taken by corn and oats. The former has risen to over $1.00 a bushel, while the latter has already passed 50?. Since Jan. 1, corn has risen over 20? and oats over 10?, thus adding over $500,000,000 in value to the corn crop and about $125,000,000 to the oat crop. As far as the former is concerned, rising prices of moderate extent for all staple grains is much more beneficial than simply a runaway market...
...Agassiz House last night the Radcliffe Guild and Idler Club gave the first of its performances of "Rollo's Wild Oat" by Clare Kummer. The production, coached by Miss Halman, was well received by the audience, which gave rounds of applause for the apt rendering of the witty lines. There will be a matinee at 2.15 o'clock today and another evening performance...