Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1931

"TIME brings all things."

Apples

To Brooklyn, N. Y., went Lester Green, fruit farmer, with ten barrels of apples, in his horse & cart. He found it impossible to get a good cash price. He swapped apples for flour, flour for meat, meat for this & that, then drove home in a Model T Ford, bringing food for dinner, coat for lis wife, a pipe, a pound of tobacco, five gallons of gasoline, 50ยข in cash.

Eggs

In Turlock, Calif., Exchange Clubmen and Rotarians proposed to hold a mighty egg-throwing contest among clubmen of nearby...

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