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...Gasoline Bill Baker's "Pipes from Pitch men" department in The Billboard, Mr. Hager, clutching suitcase and stand, scuttles back & forth across the stage pursued by a policeman until late in Act I. Then, setting up his tripes and keister, he proceeds to vend his patent potato peeler. It is all very authentic, with many protestations that his company is really giving away its product for advertising purposes and is willing to throw in a bar of Arabian perfumed soap...
...sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years in an English jail for shooting a peeler...
...equipment that he uses there are six special refrigerators, and a refrigerating plant that freezes 3750 pounds of ice in ten hours. In addition there are electric dishwashers, waffle irons, toasters, hydraulic elevators, steam plate warmers, salad and plate coolers, four gas ovens, automatic egg boilers, and a potato peeler. This saves time and also wastes only 1-10 of the potato, while hand peeling wastes 1-3. There are soup vats large enough to boil a good-sized man, a fool-proof food chopper and a special vegetable cooker...
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Samuel R. Rosoff arrived in Manhattan from Russia for the second time in his life. On his first arrival he was an 11-year-old potato-peeler. Last week he occupied princely staterooms on the Berengaria. In Russia he, a potent Manhattan contractor, turned down a 200-million-dollar subway and waterworks contract for Moscow, because the U. S. does not recognize the Soviets...