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...useful facts, many ornamental dodges. August had been everywhere, done everything and everybody; but when he was in a tight place was apt to confess himself a miserable and not quite bright sinner. From failure and success he made equally quick recoveries. Edevart and he roamed the country, peddled worthless watches, fished, worked in the fields, schemed, got drunk and lost everything, time & again. August, always on the way up or down, never got anywhere; but Edevart nearly made his pile, succeeded at least in giving his young brother the chance to reap where he had sowed. When...
Emmett McBride, 50, brother of Rev. Francis Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, was jailed in Washington for passing a worthless $35 check. Superintendent McBride called his brother's case "one of irresponsibility running over a period of more than 20 years...
...course as it exists now fails miserably in its purpose. It is too expansive to form a firm foundation for the man who plans to concentrate in the subject, and it is unutterably boring to the person who is seeking only to satisfy the exaction's of a worthless diversification system. The men who give the course are not to be too severely censured, for they are fitted neither by desire nor by qualification for such a unique position. The field is too big, too unwieldy for one year's study; that is the fundamental trouble. A survey course such...
...Worthless? Because no cheap method has yet been devised for extracting oil from the tough dark shale of Colorado, geologists estimate the production cost of such oil at $3 per barrel, as compared with current petroleum prices of $1 per barrel. Oil companies with foresight, however, have bought up Colorado shale land from original prospectors on the theory that eventually a cheap extraction process will be found. Denver records show the following holdings: Standard Oil of New Jersey, 20,000 acres; Union of California, 18,000; Continental, 10,000; Texas, 10,000; Prairie, 7,000; Deep Rock, 4,000; Pure...
...Standing) 44. At that point she ran away from home, letting it be understood that she had taken her life. In Act II-17 years later-she still looks 23, younger than her daughter to whom she returns incognito and from whom she steals the affections of a worthless young man. Then she disappears, reappears- in Act III-an octogenarian, a little tired, but still looking 23. Her doddering husband dies in her arms, she dies out of sympathy. The nurse (Haidee Wright), having evidently wished on the necklace for eternal life, survives. Only in the second act does...