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...Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., Señor Don Carlos G. Dávila, some time ago received a mysterious package from India. In it was a rare Moslem rug which an attached note offered to the Ambassador for $10,000. If he did not want this rug, said the note, would he please "return" it to a specified Manhattan address? Puzzled, the Ambassador consulted the U. S. State Department...
...obeys. After the tea is over, this is what he sees : ''A beautiful Chinese urn had been smashed. A chair had been hurled through a studio window. Someone had danced on the polished floor with hobnails. There were nine burns from abandoned cigarets in the expensive rug. A drink had been spilled in the grand piano. Someone had left a lighted cigar on a mahogany side table. An entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured on a beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore...
...styles change rapidly. Yesterday's styles may be observed in the stables, today's in the drawing room. Now declining from the height of fashion is the German Shepherd. He is heading from the hearth rug to the harness room...
Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...