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Blood, according to despatches from Sofia, has flowed so freely in the Macedonian mountains for the past three years that last week a feud between the Protogueroffists and the Michailoffists was happily called off???the Protogueroffists being "virtually extinct" and their few survivors disposed to keep the peace pact...
...flyers discovered why their tail had drooped at the take-off???the stowaway was there. They decided not to throw him overboard. To lighten the load they had dispensed with thermos bottles, victuals and other comforts. They had taken less than their full capacity of gas. Jean Assolant, married only three days to Pauline Parker, pretty Manhattan chorus girl, had refused to take her. But that hulking, selfish boy was with them. His unexpected weight prevented their reaching French soil...
...peak of the day came when it skimmed across another state line to rock-ribbed Republican Hartford, Conn. Here five miles of packed humans jammed the streets, through which police fought a slow way for the Candidate's car. And at no point did the crowds thin or taper off???as happened in Chicago...
...face of the proposed flight, holding the aviatrix and her copilot, George Haldeman, at Roosevelt field, L. I. Another aviatrix, Mrs. Francis Grayson, appeared on the scene, ready to snatch the honor of being first woman over by hopping from Old Orchard, Maine. Then, Miss Elder took off???weather or no weather...
...biggest item in the cost of producing farm stuff is the cost of land?i. e. its rental value. Many a farmer bought land during the War boom when farmland was worth more than it is today. (The effects of this situation are gradually wearing off???but it is still one of the factors in the farm-problem...