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Over 16 months ago an impotent sailor, Clarence Peters, was shot by Walter S. Ward, a son of the millionaire baking magnate (Ward's Bread), on a lonely road near Rye, in Westchester County, New York. Ward confessed, through his counsel, that he shot Peters, but claimed that he shot in self-defense and that Peters was an accomplice of a desperate band of blackmailers, who wanted Ward's money or his life. A first indictment was dismissed by Supreme Court Justice Seeger...
...Apawamis links (Rye, N.Y.), the Seniors? held their annual tourney. A central figure was perennial Horace L. Hotchkiss, 81, "Father of the U.S. Seniors' Golf Association," who made a valorous...
Gods have ambrosia for breakfast. Kings, presumably, have tarts. Presidents, New England Presidents, have whole-wheat and whole-rye cereal. This was the breakfast order that President Coolidge sent to the chef of the New Willard Hotel, his temporary Washington home. The Willard had none. Washington had none. But the Department of Agriculture's experimental station at Arlington, Va., obligingly cut and thrashed a little wheat. Virginia farmers furnished rye. Mixed 50-50, the new dish was prepared at the Willard, a breakfast fit for a President...
Compared with the estimates made a month ago, oats, barley, tobacco, flaxseed and sugar beets show indications of increased production, while rye, rice, hay, apples, peaches and peanuts show decreases...
...half-billion dollars better than the value of the 1922 crop. An even greater gain was registered by corn at $2,488,605,000 compared with $1,798,202,000 last year. Increased value was forecast for the current crop of corn, oats, barley, flaxseed, cotton; but wheat, rye, white and sweet potatoes, hay, peaches, apples showed a decrease. The 1923 wheat crop is estimated at $780,771,000 compared with $884,412,000?a loss of over $100,000,000. It is apparent that not all American farmers are going bankrupt, despite the alarming views of their situation taken...