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...even the most cynical broker in Mincing Lane had reason to suspect the honesty of Strauss & Co. Its nominal head and biggest stockholder, old Edward Anthony Strauss, was educated at King's College, is a member of Parliament from North Southwark. He inherited Strauss & Co. from his father, built it up into one of London's five biggest commodity houses, doing an extensive business in castor seeds, linseeds, peanuts. Edward Anthony Strauss and his colleagues had simply made the mistake of going short of peanuts. Instead of the surplus they had anticipated, there was an acute decline...
Under People, TIME. Sept. 7, you inform us that cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin offered a prize of 20 pounds sterling to that porter of London's Borough market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head...
...first prize (suit, overcoat, gold watch). The same Chaplin gave the same prize in 1930. Rumored reason: to proceed with twelve baskets piled on their heads, contestants tend to manipulate their feet duckwise as Cinemactor Chaplin does. Real reason: Charles Spencer spent his urchinhood in Southwark. For a view of the race, held last fortnight at Herne Field near London, won by Porter H. Staiano...
offered a prize of ?20 to that porter of London's Borough Market in Southwark who could run fastest with a pile of half-bushel baskets on his head. Cinemactor Chaplin once lived in Southwark, had porters for friends...
...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...