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Distinguished folk are often seen at Southampton, England, but seldom for longer than they are obliged to wrangle with British customs and baggage officials. Yet a fortnight ago some 2,000 distinguished folk entered that ancient town beside the River Itchen, and stayed there for the better part of two weeks, at the annual congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
Canadian Professional. Dominion professionals played their trade championship as the usual curtain-raiser to the Canadian Open. Leading U. S. professionals seldom mix in this affair. Last week it was won by Percy Barrett (Lake Shore Club, Toronto), 145 (36 holes) ; Dave Spittal (Savannah, Ga.), 147; Nicol Thompson (Hamilton, Ont.) and Fred Miles (Mississagua), 148 each...
...seldom in the past 50 years that the people of this country have been confronted by the prospect of widespread industrial strife. But never, so far as I can judge, has the danger been so grave and so urgent as today. The wisest thinkers warn us that at this moment there is an almost unparalleled crisis in our national life...
...Seldom has such a complete reversal been indicated as in the U. S. cotton report for July 16, as compared with that for June 25. The earlier estimate of the crop had indicated a "condition" of 75.9, and a total crop of 14,339,000 bales. Suddenly the statistics veered around, and the later report indicated condition at only 70.4 and a total crop of only 13,588,000 bales-a smaller output than the actual 1924 crop of 13,627,836 bales. The discrepancy between the two estimates for the current crop amounts to 751,000 bales...
Through the gusty streets of Edinburgh, where (except for U. S. trippers, itinerant golfers and English merchants seeking financial advice) you seldom see aught but Scotsmen, there walked last week a Chinaman and a Swede, a Dane and an Italian, a Swiss, a Greek, a Frenchman, a Hungarian, a Belgian, a Czecho-Slovakian, a German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening...