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...Out-of-town readers of any Philadelphia newspaper except Labor-loving J. David Stern's Record would never have guessed last week that anything out of the ordinary was happening in the staid third city of the land. Actually, Philadelphia was in the grip of what one of its officials called a "miniature revolution...
...little imitator. He and his roommate decided that what they needed was a studio on Washington Square. They got it, but that did not seem to make Rob Godfrey an artist either. Later he moved in with some friends. When they needed the spare bed for out-of-town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German girl who painted too, decided to get married last September. They got a clean, one-room studio apartment on East 18th...
Though there were extra performances to be given in Manhattan and out-of-town engagements still to be filled, the Bori gala farewell was the milestone that marked the end of Edward Johnson's first season as Metropolitan manager. Impressive had been the signs of new interest in opera. The audiences had been bigger, more enthusiastic. Financially the Company had done better than it had in four years. What deficit there was the directors kept to themselves. Manager Johnson announced in advance that he felt it necessary to play safe at first, depend on a proven repertory in which...
...Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within the city limits, set up its post boxes at various drug stores, employed 150 letter carriers. Out-of-town mail was delivered either to the Government post office or to the Pony Express. In 1880 when the U. S. prohibited private mail-carrying, Boyd's went into a general delivery business. As the U. S. parcel post service developed. Boyd's again found itself in unprofitable...
Such commercial notices announcing the arrival of out-of-town buyers last week marched down column after column of the business pages of the august New York Times. In full swing and busier than usual was the autumn buying season. On the Times' front page appeared this headline: ARRIVAL OF BUYERS SETS 6-YEAR JULY RECORD. This fact the Times alone among all New York dailies was capable of proving because it is the only newspaper outside the trade which prints without charge buyers' listings. According to the Times, business was so active that no less than...