Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of July 29, p. 29, in a note, you refer to the "contribution and refund" system in vogue at certain race tracks, whereby bettors get "prize" for around the the horse law by they hope (bet) "contributing" will to a win, and add: The same system is in use on tracks in Xenia, Toledo and Cincinnati...
Shooting the Emperor of China's cousin is not the dangerous feat that once it was. For one thing the "rightful" Boy Emperor, P'u-yi (alias Henry), is a deposed nobody who dwells under Japanese protection, has deplorably weak eyes, and looks for guidance to his fatherly British friend and former tutor. Dr. Reginald Fleming (TIME...
...shooting occurred last week at Beppu, a summer resort on the Japanese island of Kiushiu. There Prince Hsien Kai, handsome 21-year-old cousin of poor P'u-yi. was strolling in the garden of his hotel when he heard a pistol report, felt the stab of a bullet in the back, fell grievously wounded...
Died. James Gordon Rowe, 72, horse-trainer; in Saratoga, N.Y. (see p...
Comparable, in the drug field, to Stand ard Brands of General Foods in the food field. Drug, Inc. has back of it no J. P. Morgan, no E. F. Hutton. Its central name has been Louis K. Liggett, board chairman and founder of L. K. Liggett Co. and United Drug Co. Beginning his merchandising career as a traveling salesman for John Wanamaker, Mr. Liggett soon went into business for himself, making and selling headache powders that sold three for a quarter. The headache powders were not very successful, however, as people only had one headache at a time and were...