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...with a Montauk captain costs $50. but you can take three or four others along and split the price. Tackle is provided, consisting usually of a 16-oz. rod, a reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take...
...train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety...
...years Governor Haskell defied his own constitution. That document provided that Guthrie was to be the State capital, but a popular movement favored Oklahoma City. In the dark hours of a June morning Governor Haskell ordered his Secretary of State to put the State seal in a wheezing little tin-can of an automobile and drive it to Oklahoma City. Meanwhile the Governor chartered a special train from Tulsa. At daybreak Haskell and the seal were in a hotel room together, and by his proclamation, Oklahoma City became the capital...
...face of Bolivia's German General Hans Kundt, complacent League statesmen thought their efforts to promote a truce were bearing fruit. But ingenious General Kundt had set his Bolivian soldiers to the sort of work Bolivians do best-digging deep and dark as if for silver, copper, tin...
Brokers in linen jackets milled curiously around the four brand new rings of the Commodity Exchange-rubber, silk, hides, metals (copper, silver and tin). They eyed the clock nervously but President Jerome Lewine cut short the fanfare at 10 a. m. sharp, clanged the gong. A mighty roar went up from the silver post. To Broker Edwin Troetchell went the honor of first sale: 25,000 oz. of silver to Broker Clarence Lovatt at 37.75? an ounce...