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...FOLKS AT HOME was rather more than we could see until we heard it. But consider! Directed by Nat Shilkert we have the REVELERS, PAUL ROBISON, the JUBILEE SINGERS, VAUGHN DE LEATH and the VICTOR SALON ORCHESTRA, Gorgeous or chestration-one selection melting into another! A perfectly swell album-at six dollars...
Instead he preached ruthless denationalization to Congress, last week, as the keynote of his whole new fiscal policy. Briefly this consists in postponing repayments to foreign creditors of the State, until drastic economies and efficient denationalization of the railways release funds to swell the National Treasury. Señor Montes de Oca declared that the Mexican internal budget is now safely balanced, and was able to state that Mexico's external creditors are still patient...
...boat on a starting line. They would race from Cincinnati upstream to New Richmond, 22 miles. Bells jangled, smoke belched, the skippers bawled orders through megaphones. The Chris Greene started ahead, with the Betsy Ann hanging alongside, taking smart advantage of the Chris Greene's swell. Negro roustabouts exchanged cheers and grimaces. It was an oldtime scene, but without the oldtime violence and danger. Barging into the other boat or crowding it ashore was ruled out. Government inspectors were on hand to see that the racers did not exceed their legal allowances of boiler pressure. The Chris Greene drew...
...human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis are not rare. The abrupt violence of the illness gives little scope for serum, and so far little success has been had with...
...their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith nomination. "There are two kinds of big men," said Mr. Hickey. "Those who grow and those who just swell. Well, Al's growing all the time...