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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merger will almost double American Boy circulation, already well past 300,000. Youth's Companion, started as a Sunday School weekly in 1827, grew slowly, steadily, was bought out by the Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown & Co.) in 1924. Changed to a monthly to celebrate its 100th anniversary two years ago, last year it included some 250,000 U. S. boys on its subscription list...
Briefly, the sale of Youth's Companion was explained last week by its publisher. Donald B. Snyder: "We got a good price. The consolidation is particularly effective because the juvenile has a thin market and it was inevitable that one of the big two should take over the other. It so happened that American Boy met our price...
...Macon (Ga.) News asked for a foreclosure. Receivers named were Mr. Harris and one George C. Woodruff. The Editors Harris were ordered to remain as editors, while a reorganization is effected. Simple was the explanation for the action as outlined by the Macon Telegraph next day: "The two Harrises . . . have made a real contribution to this state, because they have dared to think and say. . . . Their task was not simply to continue a going newspaper?it was to bring an almost moribund newspaper to a healthy state. Insufficient capital, economic conditions and enmity they had aroused in some of their...
...accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things tend to alienate Jason. They make him think she is not a womanly woman. He is further perturbed when, during the winter, she prefers sleeping with two sick seals. But go he will not let her. Finally it is Rita who changes Jason's mind about Zarna, thus: 'Can't you see, Jason? It's our dooty. The more we love Zarna, the more we got to let her go, even if we have...
...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...