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...been established in Piggly Wiggly and took the stock off the board. With trading suspended, there was no market, no quotation on Mr. Saunders' stock. Mr. Saunders discovered that Wall Street has a cemetery at one end and a river at the other. After an unsuccessful attempt to unload his Piggly Wiggly stock, an attempt featured by a full page newspaper advertisement entitled "Fighting for My Life," Mr. Saunders turned over a fortune estimated at nine million dollars to the bankers who had financed his disastrous corner, and got out of Piggly Wiggly...
...members of the Kansas City Little Symphony and the soloist, Mrs. George R. Cowden, motored from Hays yesterday almost at the risk of their lives, because of slippery roads. The orchestra arrived at two o'clock, with one hour to unload piano, harp, trunks and instrument books from the trunks, and for luncheon. At three o'clock an audience of twelve hundred was in the gymnasium, one thousand of whom were school children. Tonight an audience of eight hundred brought the number to two thousand who heard the orchestra in spite of rain and muddy roads. Busses with school children...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...
Historians will not vex themselves with the details of his life. It is recorded that he was born and had some schooling in upstate New York. The Oneida Central Bank employed him at $100 a year. As clerk in a lumber yard in Chicago, they made him load and unload wagons and dropped him when bad times came. He got into a bank and after 42 years quit Chicago, its leading banker...
Taxis and other automobiles which do not park, if coming from Brighton may unload their passengers at the corner of North Harvard Street on Western Avenue about two hundred yards from Gate No. 8. If coming via Cambridge by the Parkway from Boston they will be required to unload and turn at DeWolfe Square on the Parkway about 300 yards below the Anderson Bridge on the Cambridge side...