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...Republican Senatorial candidate had been defeated in the primaries. As he added the list of his campaign expenses the thought suddenly came to him that perhaps he had not spent enough. His total was precisely $6.75-the price of a good mashie or a mediocre quart of Scotch. Thereupon, he, Candidate H. N. Midtbo of Donnybrook, N. D., despatched a postal card to the Secretary of the Senate, saying...
James E. Howard presented a list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch...
...their carfares paid. This milk is set in copiers and later each day is distributed to hospitals and individual mothers. The impoverished can get it free. Other private patients and hospitals pay 15¢ to 25¢ an ounce. Last year the Federation paid out $7,000 for the 1860 quarts of milk produced, or $3.70 a quart** The cost for handling an ounce was 23¢. There was no profit...
...Pasteurized cow's milk costs from 10¢ to 15¢ a quart in most U. S. cities...
...neither of these institutions has suffered as has Adrian College. There in Michigan the Kappa Kappa Gamma girls have really suffered. For spring and one quart of local indiscretion--evidently not born with them in the consulship of Metellus as was the wiser wine of Horace--have forced from their maiden lips sincere and righteous words of condemnation. Ten live men and a bottle of rum were too much for Kappa Kappa Gamma--and the girls reported to the president--thus...