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...Where did the money come from? Where did it go? These are matters oi public interest. The last Adminis-tration stands challenged. We cannot wait for Congress or the courts, especially when we remember that Mr. Daugherty is Attorney General...
Cables. Permalloy, a new alloy oi iron and nickel, with magnetic properties hundreds of times greater than those of either metal, applied by a new process to cable manufacture, has increased the word-carrying capacity of the New York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...
Pleasure Mad. When the producers forget that their films are manufactured for the projection room oi a theatre and not for a pulpit there is apt to be dullness. The lesson for this particular evening is the parable of the poor family who suddenly found themselves wealthy. Scrutinizing of the title enables one to guess the outcome...
...latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first from the hoosegow and then from a rafter stories up in the air, where she had wandered in search oi her runaway Peke, almost decided to jilt the strong, silent Martin because his father ate sauerkraut and split his infinitives. So far we were for young Hope? strong, silent yokels being our pet abhorrence and the homelife of the Van Huisches as displayed on the screen something that needed a muzzle rather...
...very bleached and shapeless little person, who, somehow, reminded one of an inferior dried fig;" "Benny Dodd's Adventure", with its O. Henry climax; "It!", full of pathetic, sodden shoes; and "Spring Scandal", peppered with potentially horrifying gossip such as, "That be a pore creature, the Queen o'Spain, Oi rackon. No flesh. No substance. No curl"--are pretty near perfection in their...