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August 24, 1929

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profiles

"All The King's Horses"

Niven Busch, Jr.

Profile of Samuel Hildreth

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fiction

THE FATTY DEGENERATION OF BROADWAY

Frank Ward O'Malley

fiction

Home was never like this: or, Elmer among the elements

Elmer Davis