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...turn of the century the late Cyrus Hall McCormick was looking for a cashier for his reaper company. He sent an emissary to fetch George Ranney, 24, a teller in the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still...
...type) of the numerous connections between Chicago families and the best of his own local deities. Admitting the magnificent abnegation (not, of course, in the material sense) of these Bostonians who have married Chicagoans, we think, nevertheless, that he should be informed. The McCormicks have had their reaper for a hundred years. Certain families extraordinarily well considered here-abouts have enjoyed the advantages of wool and shoe leather for a shorter time. Also, as any Chicagoan could have told this gentleman, the "Tribune" is a very, very vulgar paper indeed, although we suspect that some of his local journals rival...
...baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death of another, but that grinning grim reaper is defeated at last by the triumph of reason. This is to say that the denouement allows the hero to marry the heroine, and live happy ever after...
...Grim Reaper steps up to claim not one but three members of the cast. One is gored by a bull, another is murdered, the third is shot accidentally. The play is temporarily interrupted to permit some more-than-half naked chorus girls to cavort in cafe and carnival scenes and to introduce one song, "Taking Off," which has a very pleasant swing...
Cyrus Hall McCormick II & III, respectively uncle and cousin of the groom. While Alexander (Farm Board) Legge rules International Harvester Co. the uncle presides respectably as Board Chairman. The cousin-popular "Cy" to thousands of employes-had just published an able book, Century of the Reaper...