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...when 8,885 shares sold at $100. Before the Break last fall they rose to phenomenal heights, now are nominally quoted at $850. Unlike many a new scheme, Dardelet Threadlock Co. has potent backers. On its directorate among other tycoons are Clarence Hungerford Mackay of Postal and Frank L. Polk of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. The company operates by giving licenses for the manufacture and distribution of its product. Bethlehem Steel and Federal Screw Works are among the manufacturing licensees...
...Paul, worked as a farmhand. By stenography he kept himself in St. Paul Law School until he was graduated in 1909. His first six months practice at Thief River Falls netted him only $110. He moved on and in 1914 grew a mustache to enter politics in Polk County. Married, four times a father, he served a fortnight as a captain in the Army Air Service during the War. He was appointed Minnesota's acting Attorney-General in February 1928, was elected to the office last November. A tax expert as well as a Prohibition enforcement officer, Mr. Youngquist...
Five small Florida banks, all in Polk County, all units in a banking chain operated by one J. L. Fouts of Lakeland, Florida, last week closed their doors. Cause: Frozen loans in real estate...
President Polk was the first to marvel at gas illumination (1849). Mrs. Fillmore installed the first bath tub and cook stove in 1851. The stove brought protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...
...Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and onetime ("ernstwhile") Senators Ernst of Kentucky and Lea of Tennessee, were appointed by the President to a commission for the erection in Nashville, Tenn., of a memorial to Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson.* The Commission will also include three Senators chosen by the president of the Senate, three U. S. Representatives chosen by the Speaker of the House, six prominent Tennesseeans. The government will appropriate $300,000 when an equal amount has been raised by private subscription...