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...barber shop quartets were held during the summer in five New York boroughs and two adjacent counties, city employes scouted for authentic properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green...
...Chicago, police solved the ingenious suicide of Miles Kramer, 38, unsuccessful inventor, when they discovered his last and most effective invention, a short length of lead pipe which was fixed over a gas stove flame which exploded a .38 cartridge inside the pipe, which killed Miles Kramer...
...Chicago a huge turkey was cooked in a huge oven in a huge (24 ft. long) electric range. It came out done to a turn. Satisfied, Edison General Electric Appliance Co. announced that the $5,000 stove to be installed in the White House kitchen, now being renovated at a cost of $152,000, had passed all tests, was fit to cook the President's breakfast or a dinner for 150 diplomats...
...into debt, were closed. He dismissed his chauffeur, sold his houses, pawned his wife's jewels. Martha Washington candies vanished from public sale in New York. Last year, penniless, Mr. Washburne moved to a one-room flat. There he spent his days puttering with candy on the kitchen stove, finally concocted some sweets made of fresh fruit and vegetables. Each day he slipped out of the flat, went to Times Square. There he tied a placard on his chest, stood by subway exits selling candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots, peas. Too proud to tell his wife what...
...morning last week Franklin Roosevelt was offered nothing more than cereal and coffee for breakfast. A small electric stove on the third floor of the White House was all that provided the President of the U. S. with hot food. Rated capacity of the stove was three modest meals at a time. Franklin Roosevelt was keeping bachelor hall. Mrs. Roosevelt had scampered off to Campobello Island in Canada. Left in the White House with the President were only his sick secretary, Louis McHenry Howe, Mrs. Howe and Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand. Since neither the President nor ailing...