Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . Although many citizens disagreed with the beliefs of Mr. Kvale,* all respected his sincerity and admired the man himself. He was more loved and better known by the people of the seventh Minnesota district than any previous representative. Benson, his home town, has a population of less than 2,500, yet more than 5,000 persons attended the funeral of Congressman Kvale. At dawn of the day of his funeral, members of the Benson volunteer fire department washed the newly paved streets of the city and in other ways helped to make the city look its best...
...charge-you said nothing about it. Further, you pictured up a great Mardi Gras party, that I was supposed to have attended, to have been a terrible thing. Evidently some of you have been in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and if you have, you know that the whole town carries on on Canal Street as much as could have been carried on in any of the several Little Theatre parties that I might have visited, and most particularly one as the guest of the President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. You pictured everything under the sun from...
...stood beside a vat of boiling soap and stirred it with a paddle. When Wrigley Jr.-young Wrigley then-tired of developing his muscles in this way he persuaded his father to let him sell scouring soap on the road and before long was driving through the high-grass towns of Pennsylvania, New York, and New England in a four horse team with bells on the harness. He was a good salesman. When other manufacturers cut under his father's prices he raised Wrigley scouring soap to retail at 10? instead of 3? and gave dealers an umbrella with...
...Town Boy tells of country girl who took her city sweetheart back to the barnyards, where he seemed pale indeed. When a bucolic beef eater smashed him on the chin, she realized however that she still loved him. Critic Robert Littell of the New York World: "I can think of no good reason for its existence." Critic Gilbert W. Gabriel of the New York American: "It has a certain pleading innocence about the badness of its writing." The New York Times: ". . . definitely a minor occurrence in the theatre...
...week from the Winston-Salem (N. C.) offices of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. came an unexpected telegram that Camels had been boosted to their old price of $6.40. Chesterfields, Piedmonts, and Lucky Strikes followed immediately. From Lorillard came a statement that there were not enough officials in town over the weekend to do anything about it, that an announcement would be made soon. With the 1929 output of cigarets estimated at the new high figure of 120,000,000,000,* the rise in price, if maintained for the rest of the year, will mean in- creased profits...