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...last year it made $14,000,000. Until last spring P. & G. was always headed by a descendant of one of the two Cincinnati founders, with the Procters generally in the ascendency. But Chairman William Cooper Procter died childless and the management is now in the hands of Richard Redwood Deupree, a conservative steeped in good Procter paternalism...
...from one reader of The Weekly Newsmagazine, written upon the letterhead of Hotel Redwood, Bogalusa, we learn that ceilings and bath are provided for the comfort of guests. Here, it would seem, is a service overlooked by Mr. Statler and other inn owners that should be featured in advertising. Who could resist the appeal of a ceiling with every bath...
...stated that William Amos Smith was a justice of the supreme court and a former attorney-general. This identified the writer of this letter pretty well as the person who was having trouble with the neighbors over a bunch of cats. Now the fact is that it was William Redwood Smith who was having trouble with his neighbors over the cats. He is a former justice of the supreme court but left that tribunal to become an attorney for The Atchison Topeka &, Santa Fe Railway Company. He never was attorney-general. I was attorney-general and then went...
TIME apologizes for confusing cat-owning onetime Justice William Redwood Smith with non-cat-owning Justice William Amos Smith. The application by William Redwood Smith for a restraining order to prevent the city of Topeka from enforcing an ordinance limiting the number of cats per citizen to two is on the docket of the Shawnee County District Court, has not yet been acted upon...
...with the "High Jinks" a musical play composed, staged, sung by members. Though the "High Jinks" are the climax of the festival, many members consider the "Burial of Dull Care" the most impressively beautiful ceremony. While the moon splashes ghostly shadows through the grove, a funeral procession moves under redwood branches huge as an oaktree's bole, carrying along the effigy of "Dull Care," playing slow music. Hidden voices chant from the shadowy hillsides. The procession halts before the sacrificial "Altar of the Owl," solemnly buries the effigy as the music dies away...