MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 10, 1948

¶ The two surviving members of the New York Department of the Grand Army of the Republic (one aged 106, the other 104) decided to get together for its 82nd annual encampment, then dissolve it forever.

¶ Chicago landlords were being offered the following "inducements" by apartment hunters: free dental care for life, a refrigerator, a television set, a year's free voice and piano lessons, a set of bathroom fixtures, contact lenses, an outboard motor, $500 worth of interior decorating.

¶ Baltimore, which had prayed for the Confederacy while Union troops held the city...

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