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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philadelphia. Magazines packed in bundles of five averaged 25? the bundle. All this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Auctions | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

New Century. Phoenixlike was the Century. Last August Editor Hewitt Hanson Rowland declared that "with added leisure in which to make a better magazine" Century's editors would give their subscribers "added leisure in which to read and reflect"; that the monthly Century would become a quarterly (TIME, Aug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Magazines | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

In St. Louis two lawyers have put their skill at the disposal of two rodents-a common or Egyptian mongoose and a slightly larger water mongoose. The lawyers are Cleveland Alexander Newton, one-time (1919-27) Missouri Congressman, and Thomas Cobbs. What aroused them was the fact that the two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: St. Louis Mongooses | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Lawyers Newton and Cobbs claimed the Government's case was weak because: 1) the Government could not prove that the mongooses had been imported. They were bought two years ago for $40 each from a reputable animal dealer; 2) both were males, which eliminated any chance of multiplication. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: St. Louis Mongooses | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Legends that the mongoose crossbreeds with rats, that it can hypnotize a snake with its glassy stare (or vice versa), are groundless. But because mongooses eat rats, mice and large insects, in addition to snakes and birds and their eggs, they have been found useful. Indian natives keep them as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: St. Louis Mongooses | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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