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Alidor R. Allemarsch of Sylvania, Sask., said he had made a fortune during the dry season by buying dried wells and cutting them into post holes, which sold like hot cakes. Pastures were so dry about Chippewa Falls, Wis., Guy R. Jewett said, that cows gave powdered milk. From Denver, 1933 Champion Philip McCary complained of the badge: "It isn't gold; it's brass. It isn't a diamond it's a hunk of glass...
Vandal Nearing Columbus, Ohio s Union Station half an hour late, Penn sylvania's No. 614 (Cleveland-Cincinnati) hurtled through an open switch, piled into a string of empty box cars, pinned three trainmen in the overturned locomotive cab. Police and railroad officials said the switch had been locked open by a vandal...
...Freedonia's collapse is only delayed by Brothers Chico and Harpo as spies for a rival principality. Groucho is engaged simultaneously in making love to and insulting the richest lady in Freedonia. He is also doing his best to foment war by abusing Ambassador Trentino (Louis Calhern) of Sylvania who makes the mistake of hiring Chico and Harpo. They enter his office armed to the teeth with alarm clocks, scissors for cutting off coat tails, cigar butts and assorted bells. Assigned to pry into the affairs of Groucho, they begin by rolling a peanut stand under his window, making...
...other story behind this.''* ¶ The NRA campaign kept intruding itself into the President's vacation most of the week. He signed trade codes for wool textiles, electrical goods, women's cloaks & suits. He approved Administrator Johnson's temporary settlement of the Penn sylvania coal strike (see p. 11). He announced the Government's readiness to adjust its contracts with NRA subscribers confronted with higher manufacturing costs. He wrote a letter to a Philadelphia woman who named her baby girl Nira, chuckled over the discovery of a town called Nira (pop. 20) in Iowa...
...copyrighted story the Baltimore Sun stated that "financial interests which back and in a sense control" Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio were discussing a merger of the two competing roads. Penn sylvania's President Atterbury had "nothing to say," but B. & O.'s President Daniel Willard, vacationing in Vermont, promptly grabbed a telephone to shout: "I am opposed to any plan contemplating the con solidation of the Baltimore & Ohio with the Pennsylvania Railroad...