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...enthusiastic. The Downing Street mailbag was stuffed with telegrams and letters of support, not a few from the U. S. A candy manufacturer sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee a seat in the Commons. All York shire labor is proud of you. The dole has been much abused and we workers are tired of keeping those who will not work. . . . Yorkshire likes pluck." Leaking Secrets. British financial bills are always closely...
...Britain and the Irish Free State letter postage has been upped 3? for the first ounce, in an attempt to reduce the postal deficit and bring first-class revenue closer to actual transportation costs. If the Seattlite thought he could beat this letter postage increase by using a postcard, he would find that on it too the rate had been jacked up from 2? to 3?. If his London correspondent journeyed to Spain the man in Seattle could still reach him with a 2? U. S. stamp. But for everywhere else in the Eastern Hemisphere the standard letter rate...
...exceptional opportunity in my FAVORITE stock. A unique situation existing" was the heading of a postcard, printed in red ink, which Col. May sent last week to all of Gulf's shareholders, all of his friends, many a broker. It predicted that Gulf, selling in the low $30'$ last week, will pass $100 within a few months, may soon be absorbed by a bigger company. But Gulf, said Col. May, will enter no merger at a price of less than $200 if he can help...
...Author. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...
...stated: "At Bilbao, Spain, Erasto Garcia wrote 5,725 words (three chapters) from Don Quixote on a post card, claimed a world's record." Dr. John J. Taylor, Streator, 111. (this cover- to-cover reader's Grandaddy) in 1893, before 30 prominent Streatorites, wrote on a postcard 14,564 words. The subject: i Kings, 13th Chapter containing 1,142 words. This written twelve times with 860 additional words on one side of a regulation U. S. postcard with the naked eye. With either Dr. John J. or Senor Erasto to pen it-what big-shooting, Hoovering, tycooning, picturing...