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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Copley--The Ghost Train--8.30 o'clock. Clive presents his five hundredth play--almost all mysteries like this...
...Louis, Chicago, Washington and an Ohio city? They are all closer to your office than Aiken. That we are civilized is best attested by the considerable number of America's best families who for more than 50 years have been spending their winter vacation in Aiken, stepping from the train and realizing how far removed from gunmen and gangsters, machine and sawed-off shotguns they are, they are glad...
...drowsy. Most of them slouched and slumbered in their seats; others gazed, stupidly, at real estate advertisements in newpapers. At Palatka, Fla., on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, husky voices suddenly echoed through the Pullman steel. Passengers jerked themselves out of their various shades of somnolence, as the train stopped. Curious, they got their noses dirty trying to look through the screens. They heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: "Yoh all let me 'lone, yoh whaht trash, I gotta ticket!"* Going outside, they saw the irate Negress and her baggage being turned over to an officer...
...Radio Dealers deliberately train buyers to the use of better and costlier receiving sets, sometimes even selling experimental sets at a loss. How well the dealers were rewarded in 1926 by this canniness, the trade journal Radio Retailing estimated last week-1,750,000 sets sold; average price $115. The year before the average price of 2,000,000 sets had been $83. In 1926 the sale of sets, parts and accessories reached $588,000,000-$158,000,000 more than...
...Crack Train. The New York Central's 20th Century Limited reached a peak in receipts for the year 1926-$10,500,000. It operated an average of more than six sections a day; carried one-half of the New York-Chicago passengers of the N. Y. C., one-third of the total passengers of all railroads between the two cities...