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Bennet Griffin, flying the Oklahoma, rose from the ground at Oakland, Calif., for the first takeoff, and the race was on. At intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators...
...Pedlar & Ryan, Inc. New York...
Another like award was given to Pedlar & Ryan, Inc., Manhattan agency, and Ovington's Manhattan specialty store, for the best local retail campaign...
Hardihood* "Realism Has Crossed the Potomac," by Ferry The Story. "Broom sedge," old Matthew Fairlamb used to say, "ain't jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill...
...bootleggers are to be converted to Christianity, the movement deserves the hearty support of the entire country. Who does not pity the rum runner, tossing in his ship upon the fretful sea and longing for a Bible to solace his lonely hours? And what of the house-to-house pedlar, is he to have no bundle of holy trac's to protect his vitals from the bullets of the revenue officers? These men deserve all the pity they can get, for they are strangers in their native land, pursued relentlessly, and now and then successfully, by the minions...