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...Story.* It was after spending a molten July day on his slanting cellar door, contemplating pipe-smoke, hollyhocks and a vista of the Marvellous Vale, that Dr. Higbie Chaffinch, 64, professor of the Latin language and literature at Johns Hopkins University and for some weeks a widower, journeyed to Baltimore's business section to advertise for a housekeeper, and, adventurously, to dine in an oyster-bar. It was in the oyster-bar that a rubicund, ejaculatory stranger tendered him a card...
Miami. Four suburban banks closed, each with deposits approximating $1,000,000; Bank of Coconut Grove (capital $25,000), Bank of Buena Vista (capital $50,000), Bank of Little River (capital $20,000), Bank of Dania (capital $30,000). Low capitalization against the vast deposits accepted was one important cause of this banking frailty. But President George Romfph of the Miami Clearing House Association blames the situation on outside control and loans on outside paper...
...Yesterday we spoke of our duty towards our town. Today we wish to speak of something that concerns each one of us more intimately. We refer to the indiscriminate leaving around of cars on the beautiful vista of lawn that stretches down to the bright sparkling waters of the Thames...
...like a visit to the seashore. It takes John Jones out of himself while he cries and laughs at 'Cyrano de Bergerac', and it leaves him a finer man. His soul is purged and life does not seem quite so mean as it did before. His warped mental vista has been straightened...
After ten years of mystical communion with Ahura Mazda, but with no success in getting converts, he finally came to court. There he converted Vista Spa, the King's daughter; then the King's brother, son, Grand Vizier. He married the King's counselor's daughter. Finally the King was won, and Zoroastrianism became a militant nationalistic faith...