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...were sold at fabulous prices until fur dealers in Prince Edward Island investigated, bought Charlie Dalton's business and 20 pairs of Charlie Dalton's foxes for $500,000. The highest price ever paid for a fox skin was $2,819 paid in 1911 for a black pelt from Dalton's ranch...
Chows. Red Cloud III, a male with a coarse pelt, bred in the U. S. by Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Quereaux, was named best of winners. Mrs. David Wagstaff's Ledgelands' Nyan Lok beat the other bitches...
Last week another company received resuscitation in this manner. Eitingon Schild Co., Inc. is the world's largest fur organization, has usually reaped big profits from pelt operations extending around the world. Last fall, however, when stocks crashed the fur market had its most violent decline in history, average drops ranging from 30% to 50%. The only skins unaffected were such blue-chip staples as the very fine white, silver, and cross fox, Russian sable, fisher. The cheap but U. S. favored raccoon temporarily maintained prices because of seasonal demand. Eitingon Schild's inventories had to be written...
Bear, lions, tigers, water buffaloes, etc. .30-.405 Soft-nose for safety; steel-jacketed for sure-shooting pelt-collectors...
...struggles were tremendous. Sometimes men grouped together, and on the shoulders of four husky men stood one light one, snatching enough flowers for all, while frantic classmates tackled the big men and yanked the small one's shirt from his back ... And now, in this soft age, men merely pelt confetti at their girls, and are pelted in return...