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...what it says: In Dec. 14 issue, you say that Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. This was true ten or 15 years ago, but there are in North Carolina at the present time two or three markets, viz. Wilson, Greenville and Winston-Salem which sell more tobacco than does Lexington. When Lexington was the largest tobacco market in the U. S., Kentucky was producing more tobacco than any other State. Now North Carolina produces more than Kentucky and Virginia, the third State in production, combined. , I am getting...
There is, however, nothing mysterious to Signor Bendandi's forecasts. Some 30,000 quakes ruffle the earth yearly. Patient men have compiled world catalogs of recognized quakes, viz., R. Mallet's Catalogue of Recorded Earthquakes (1606 B.C.-A.D. 1842), J. Milne's A Catalogue of Destructive Earthquakes (A.D. 1-1899). Others have brought the records up to date. Out of the records analysts have been able to decipher two groups of periodicity in earthquakes. In one group vigorous quakes occur once a year, faint ones every day. In the other group trifling temblors occur every 21 minutes...
...anti-Hearst suits are based on substantially the same statements, viz: i) that Bishop Cannon was visiting his secretary Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum (his present wife) in her apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...
...from Paul Block's Brooklyn Standard Union. He took his plan to William Randolph Hearst Jr. who donated free office space in the old Mirror building and underwrote the printing bill for the first issue. His sponsorship was tentative, conditional upon the tone of the first issue, viz: he would countenance no panhandling. Editor is Edward A. Roth, whose 43 years service on the World terminated when Scripps-Howard bought that paper. News editor is Jack Hyatt, longtime Hearstling. Thirty other ex-newsmen worked on the first issue. If 6,000 copies of the edition...
...hotels were overcrowded. The A. M. A. had forecast 5,000 doctors and their wives would attend the convention. About 7,500 appeared. The wives visited places and collected free samples. The husbands talked and listened to a practically unassimilable number of medical facts, of which some held attention, viz...