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Best known Collier company is Barren G. Collier, Inc. which he founded in Memphis at the age of 17. He was then in charge of the city's street lighting and he grew bored with staring at the wall space in trolley cars. Why not plaster the space with ballyhoo posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads...
...grown-rich grew as bored with Florida swamps as he had with undecorated trolley cars. So he bought up a million and a half acres of Florida, mud and all. Before he got through he had acquired 14 hotels, built roads, railroads, towns, schools, banks, telephone systems, and opened a steamship line to Havana...
...reading aloud from the Bible. This day he began at the beginning of the Old Testament, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." After he had finished, by prearrangement another North Presbyterian parishioner elsewhere took up the reading. Throughout the day, a businessman on a trolley, a stenographer in the street, a group of old ladies in a home, at scheduled times took up 130 separate stints of enunciating psalms, proverbs, laws, lists of begatters...
...today's CRIMSON. A few of these need special emphasis. There is the inimitable Coffee Pot and the bent for economics, there is the smell of old stew in the entry over the kitchen and the rare collection of pornographic, there is the proud colonial library and the trolley line on Boylston Street. Some of these features are new, but the middle class remains, and with it all that was implicit in the term Smith Hall...
...Seattle, two passengers on a moving trolley quietly & quickly took out electric light bulbs, unscrewed brass fixtures, doorknobs, seat handgrips. Another passenger yelled to the conductor: "They're taking your trolley to pieces." The trolley stopped. The filchers fled...