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Throughout France the U. S. Washburn Crosby flour company asks from many a billboard "Eventuellement, Pourquoi Pas Maintenant?";* but the Grands Moulins de Paris have no slogan. Explaining, last week, Miller Vilgrain said: "We French millers do not advertise, and sell almost wholly to bakers, seldom to the housewife, who does little of her own bread or pastry making. The competition offered by American flour firms in France is negligible.* The French miller does not advertise or claim superiority for his individual brand of flour, because both the price and quality are regulated...
Huskies. Emile St. Godard of The Pas, Manitoba, raced his dogs against the famous huskies of Leonard Seppala, the man who took the serum to Nome, beat him in a 123-mile dog derby for a gold...
...Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, spoke out his allegiance to the old law with these words: "When I think of the law I see a princess mightier than she who once wrought at Bayeux eternally weaving into her web dim figures of the ever lengthening pas;--figures too dim to be noticed by the idle, too symbolic to be interpreted except by her pupils, but to the discerning eye disclosing every painful step and every world-shaking contest by while mankind has worked and fought its way from savage isolation to organic social life...
...fourth quarter Moses Ellis '28 made a 55 yard punt from his own 15 yard line which rolled to the Juniors 20 yard line. On the next play Chandler Robbins '28 blocked the Junior punt, but the Juniors recovered the ball. A bad pas from center sent the ball back of the Junior recovered the ball back of the Junior goal line, where Garrity recovered, scoring a safety for the Seniors...
...East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...