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...Yorker, weekly smart-chart, last week published an anecdote about a gentleman with a familiar but "unplaceable" face. The gentleman had entered a Manhattan sport goods store and inquired of the clerk: "What do you charge for blowing up old squash tennis balls that have gone...
...named no prospect, pushed no man's cause unless it were his own. But in Texas his Cabinet-mate, Albert Sidney Burleson, returned to pristine vigor, gave Democrats a Cause and a Man. Texan, Dry, Protestant, he called on his party to nominate Governor Alfred E. Smith, New Yorker, Wet, Roman Catholic. To newsgatherers he said: "If Smith is nominated, he will be elected. . .. Governor Smith stands for the same things that Woodrow Wilson stood for. Wilson stood for enforcement of law, and so does Smith. Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act and Smith is against it and in favor...
Doubtless you are that New Yorker who asked how far west of Buffalo one began to see the Indians...
James Gordon Bennett invited him to join him in establishing the New York Herald. Greeley declined. Instead, in 1834, aged 23, he began to publish and edit the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal (in no wise connected with the current smart-chart by that name...
Item from what corresponded to the Miscellany page of the New Yorker...