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...Jaffray of Minneapolis, President of the Soo Lines, was chosen for chairman of the new corporation, which is to be incorporated in Delaware. With its $10,000,000 capital it can lend as much as $100,000,000 by securing loans from the War Finance Corporation. It was hoped to put the new corporation in motion within ten days. "Big business" and "the moneyed interests" voted their confidence in the financial soundness of the Northwest, and voted their good will as well. Possibly they expected a little less radicalism and opposition in return...
...Addison Woolsey Bronson, the book collector, has been permitted to make a copy of a unique poem which Rudyard Kipling wrote some years ago for Mr. F. D. Underwood, the president of the Erie Railroad. When Mr. Underwood was general manager of the Soo line, he named two stations, Rudyard and Kipling, after Rudyard Kipling whose works he greatly admired, and wrote the author about his Michigan namesakes. Kipling replied by sending him a cabinet photograph with these lines inscribed upon the back...
...buffalo horns nicely polished for ornaments or sets for hat racks and cornicopios which I will sell reasonable and ask no pay until the goods are received and inspected and iff they dont give satisfaction can send them back iff you want anything in my line let me no soo and oblige yours Truely C H Littl...