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Enters Mr. Stillings, angry. He drapes the nameplate with black crepe. He puts before it a floral wreath. He adds a placard reading: "Financially Dead." To reporters Mr. Stillings remarks: "Mr. Johnston's conduct has been extremely foolish and I intend to take severe measures with him." As one would suspect, Standard Diamond Co. deals in diamonds. Its patrons agree to pay $1 a week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves...
More than a rack of test-tubes ? a retort! Seething humanity smothered the Derby. Confetti and torn telephone books snowed. A placard and its prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
...when it crashed. In the wrecked car were Wilfred Veno, professional hockey player, with a fractured skull and a slash across his neck from a broken windshield, and his mother, Mrs. Mary Veno, less seriously injured. They were taken to a hospital. On their car was a placard which read: "Al Smith for President...
...noisy shadow of the Ninth Avenue L, at 47th street, Manhattan, there is a tiny grocery store bristling with progress. First glance reveals no striking difference from myriad other stores; glance two does. A placard reads: "Nothing in this store over 5 & 10 cents." There are other wall slogans: "Ordinarily we dislike seeing folks get in a Pickle but let us help you. There is no gamble about our Diced carrots." A lone cashier, for a dime, will dispense eggs by threes, bacon in strips of six, butter in quarters of a pound, anchovy paste, or vegetal buds...
...suggestion of New York Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea, refused to allow the American Birth Control League to exhibit its wares at. the Grand Central Palace. So the A.B.C.L. set up its headquarters across the street in a dirty little vacant restaurant, displaying the following placard...