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...later he was thrown by a horse and dragged through a barbed-wire fence. Then he fell from a speeding bobsled, fracturing his skull. At 80, he recovered from double pneumonia. At 81, he was downed by a paralytic stroke. At 82 he was run over by a horse & wagon. At 83 he was run over by an automobile. Thrice has lightning struck Hank Schafer...
...elements that make for the success of "David Harum" are all taken from an earlier era when the words "boom" and "depression" were blessedly technical terms. James Cruze, the director, is the man who directed. "The Covered Wagon." The story is almost Mark Twain style. The star is a product of rural America...
Thus did the snatching of a famed dog call attention to pupnapping. That it had become a new racket was last week apparent from other reports. In Memphis police searched for a man driving an old wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...
...first time in seven years it declared a dividend ($1.25) on the preferred stock. Chairman Warner had been in the dry goods business most of his life before he took over American Woolen. At the age of 18 he was traveling around the country in a big wagon filled with 20 trunks of merchandise. He went to McCall's in 1919, the year its publisher boasted that the "wolf wasn't at McCall's door, it was way inside." Without additional financing and by sheer merchandising ability he doubled sales in four years, pushed them...
...work falls into three different groups. In the first, men will drive automobiles and assist in delivering supplies from the headquarters of the Red Cross. In this work private automobiles are especially desired, but there is an opportunity of driving the beach wagon belonging to the Phillips Brooks House...