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It rained frogs, thousands of little green frogs, in Massachusetts-or so said J. P. Valliere of New Bedford, who said he saw them. A Spokane butcher displayed a sign: "Choice Meats: The Management Will Accept Cash, First Mortgages, Bonds and Good Jewelry." Walter W. Brown of Onawa, Iowa lopped...
They are very special rubber trees, with trunks of one variety grafted on wild rubber roots, and boughs of still another variety grafted on the trunks. Each tree should produce many times as much rubber as a wild tree. Within a few years Belterra may produce, nearly a third as...
Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout...
The Stove-Struck. Mrs. Lucas, who once ran a restaurant in London, arrived in the U.S. in 1942, with two trunks of pots & pans and no money. With borrowed funds and a $40 stove which she "found in a junk heap,"she started the Cordon Bleu. Several thousand students (including...
In the ring, Rocky looked rusty from his layoff. He fought clumsily but cleanly, missing with a lot of roundhouse rights. But by the fifth round, he had connected often enough to bloody his opponent's eyes, and Rocky's white trunks looked like a butcher's...