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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 23 words
  3. Roller Canaries

    While everybody is familiar with ordinary canaries, the Roller canary is to many unknown. Admitting that among the many varieties bred and ...

    Article : 347 words
  4. [Short Story.] DEAD "CERT"

    Funny how arguments start, isn't it? There were four of us in the railway carriage, and the young fellow sitting in the corner, with his back to the ...

    Article : 1,434 words
  5. The Orient Sacred Stone

    Jade is the most sacred stone of the Orient, and from the earliest times the greatest rulers of the East have treated this stone with a reverence ...

    Article : 886 words
  6. Strong Men of Industry

    Bent under sacks containing 1101b. of coal, seventy-eight men recently raced over a two-and-a-half mile course in Paris. It was the annual ...

    Article : 436 words
  7. New Face to the World

    Plastic surgery enables many of the prisoners discharged from Connecticut's State Prison at Wetthersfield literally to show a new face to the ...

    Article : 210 words
  8. Silk and Velvet Purchases

    Are you looking at velvet remnants and wondering if you have a real bargain? Take a piece of the material, roll it round your hand, and examine ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. MAKING THE BEST OF IT.

    There's a patch of blue in every sky and always something larger than the cloud. To look at the present only is to lose sight of the glory of life. To ...

    Article : 347 words
  10. LAND FOR THE LITTLE.

    Mr. Julius Gont, just 3ft. 4in. high, is a big business man in Budapest, where he owns and runs a department store which supplies the midgets of ...

    Article : 182 words
  11. FEEDING DUCKS.

    In a series of experiments it was found that "green" ducks can be fed so that they will weigh 6 lb. In 11 weeks. Those were ordinary ...

    Article : 203 words
  12. DEFECTS IN GRAZING.

    The most usual type of grazing which leads to deterioration and lowered production of pastures is that in which unduly hard grazing takes place ...

    Article : 154 words
  13. SAFETY BELTS FOR BACKSEAT DRIVERS.

    Undoubtedly a great majority of injuries, both minor and serious, received by people id motor smashes are due to their being thrown forward ...

    Article : 223 words
  14. FACING THE HILLS.

    Those who drive through the country see, at some time or another, a steep hill before them, winding up towards the sky. It seems impossible ...

    Article : 208 words
  15. THE WRONG NUMBER.

    All day long Miss Tremolo had experienced the strange presentiment of disaster. As her tardy hands fumbled over her section of the telephone ...

    Article : 183 words
  16. REVELATION.

    She: I'm simply dying to know what you think of me. He: Why you know I think you're terribly attractive! ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. RIDDLES.

    Why is a wedding ring like a fish?—Because it is her-ring. What runs, yet has no feet?—Water, of course. ...

    Article : 127 words
  18. CATCH AS CATCH CAN.

    The rays of a huge, lazy moon played with the tops of the ripples. The wind hardly stirred. There was a short, muffled laugh. Two figures sat almost ...

    Article : 128 words
  19. To the Point.

    Parent (to presumptuous suitor): "I don't want my daughter to be tied to a hopeless idiot all her life." Suitor (cheerfully): "Of course not, ...

    Article : 174 words
  20. Sympathy.

    Teacher: "Can you explain to me how matches are made, Bertie?" Bertie, sympathetically: "No, miss, I'm sorry I don't know. I'd like to be ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. Family Problem.

    First Girl Hiker: "I inserted an advertisement in our local newspaper recently under a box number for a male partner to accompany me on a ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. Asking For It.

    Harry and Lizzie had been to market, where Harry had bought a young pig and an empty tub. Walking home along a lonely ...

    Article : 167 words
  23. Stuck.

    Visitor (in hotel writing-room): "Pardon me, but would you tell me how to spell 'temporarily'?" Jovial-looking Chap: "Sure. T-e-m ...

    Article : 94 words
  24. Explained.

    Au old sea captain, well known for his powers of exaggeration, was describing a voyage at supper one night. "While cruising in the Pacific," said ...

    Article : 104 words
  25. "Pointing" It Out.

    Tenant: "The walls in all the rooms In my house are damp!" Landlord: "That's because there's so much 'due' on it!" ...

    Article : 24 words
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