Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week the book department of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, leased by the Doubleday-Doran Book Shops, Inc., stopped displaying Mrs. Eddy. Simultaneously The New Republic, Manhattan liberal weekly, appeared with an article by Newspaperman Craig F. Thompson of the New York World, entitled "The Christian Science Censorship." Said Newspaperman Thompson: "The Church maintains in every state . . . a Committee on Publication . . . 'to correct in a Christian manner injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort...
...think a fellow who would pay $1,000,000 for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner, Texas oil & cattleman, for Reigh Count, derby winner (1928). He had turned down the offer. Reigh Count is now ready for stud although he may be raced one more season...
...Last week Reigh Count, Mrs. Hertz's champion rooster, won the grand prize at the Chicago Poultry Show...
...year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without picking up after him." Playing unevenly at Hillcrest Country Club near Los Angeles last week, Hagen was put out in the semifinal by nervous, capable Diegel. John Farrell put out Al Watrous who was his best friend when they used to caddy together on courses in Westchester County...
...Merchants' Association told the press. The press told the story. Last week the Merchants' Association received a letter from one Frederick Paul, farmer, of Stemmers, Md. Wrote he: "We saw a piece in the Baltimore News saying the Turkish Government is asking your association to help them get rid of wild hogs infesting the country. So my father and I have proposed to undertake such a task. Get in touch with us. . . . P.S. We are individual, just father and son. We also will clean up the hogs in six weeks. My father is social, but when wild hogs...