Capitalist boast of vast capitalization profits in exile
An unnamed capitalist returns to “God's own country” and boasts of a Paris capitalization scheme worth 20 million francs, claims France bars overvalued concerns, mocks French law, and dreams of merging properties in Goa and Carbondale for a 26 million profit in a Los Angeles Times clipping style.
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Aga
Cap
Paris
Bristol
Place Vendome
Hotel of Kings
France
Land of the Free
Siren
Goa
Old City
Carbondale
Los Angeles Times
Orchid salad mirrors gowns with harmonious color match
A dining note describes orchid salad as marrying with green or yellow gowns. Priced at $2 per pound, the dish features leaves shaped like an orchid and is noted by fashionably amused diners. The piece mentions Italian origins and Long Island vendors supplying the fruit.
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M'Sieu
Italy
Long Island
New York Evening Sun
How to Avoid Lightning Across the United States
The article cites annual lightning deaths in the U S near three hundred with about one million five hundred thousand dollars in property damage. Prof John Zeleny of Minnesota offers safety rules including keeping away from metal pipes open fireplaces and telegraph poles. He warns against standing near isolated trees and avoids elm oak poplar and ash trees as common strike targets.
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United States
John
Zeleny
Minnesota
Cigar Purchases and Victoria Seismology News
A fragment mentions a Carnegie Foundation lunch amid a discussion of cigars for a fiancé and a fashionable Fifth Avenue tobacconist. It notes a long black cigar might suit a tall calendar man. Also reported is approval of $2,000 to build an Earthquake Observatory at Victoria, British Columbia.
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Pittsburgh
Hadley
Yalé
Carnegie “Foundation
New, York
Fifth Avenue
George
Victoria
British Columbia
Marshall Herald
the Terre: Haute
Daily Star
Herald
Star
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Chase & Sanborn Coffee
Pittsburgh Steel Co
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Claude English
Casey
Studebaker Automobiles
Marshall
Clinois
Elie
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Terre Haute
Terre Haute Daily Star
Enterprise Flour
Vigo County
Uncle Sam
Bee Gee
Washington
National Capital
Pennsyevans
Maxco
Ford Getats
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Thoreoe
Appavan
Petra
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Behmer
Denti
Bea
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