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Show Bits O' Business And Things To Come THINGS TO COME Where do you put your toaster? toas-ter? Here is a new one (electric) especially designed to fit on window win-dow sills or other narrow ledges. led-ges. . . An ash try thatclips on a saucer, thus reminding your guc?st not to flick ashes on your best china. . . American Cyani-mid Cyani-mid is latest company to announce an-nounce a treatment to keep cotton cot-ton garments from wrinkling. Said to cost only 10 cents a yard . . . These impressive fellows who always carry slide-rules with them can now get one precision-made out of metal. . . A new vending- machine dispenses a hot dog and a warm bun, wrapped separately. But it has not mustard. . . For libraries and others who use microfilm, there is a new viewing machine that makes reading and locating easier. . . For cleaning fabrics, there is a new machine that gives material a quick shampoo and then dries it quickly. BITS O' BUSINESS New Yorkers, alleged to be blase and sophisticated, have just paid a record sum to see the circus. The "greatest show on earth," ending its 33-day stand at Madison Square Garden, played play-ed to 924,000 people and the highest box office receipts in its history. . . As April ended, there were 58.3 million people employed em-ployed in the U. S. . . Experts continue to give out with figures proving that the wheattcrop will again be bumper, and continue to expect lower prices for that all-important commodity. But elsewhere on the commodity front, the talk is all of higher prices. Fine wool is scarce, and the price responds to buying; raw hide prices rise; black pepper, pep-per, which created so much excitement ex-citement a few years ago, is again in the headlines. Meanwhile, Mean-while, Washington shows no disposition dis-position to use the curbs inherent inher-ent in the banking system. Politicians Poli-ticians like to inflate, but they fear any deflationary action as they do the plague. REGAINS $700; FAINTS WEST FRANKFORT. ILL. When janitor Les Burke arrived at work at a movie theater recently, re-cently, an unidentified man was waiting for him, to tell him that he thought he had lost his brill-fold brill-fold in the theater the night before. be-fore. Leading the janitor to the seat where he had sat the previous pre-vious night, the janitor picked up a bulky wallet and handed it to the man. The man promptly prompt-ly fainted. After Burke, had revived re-vived him, with water, the man staggered out of the theater mumbling: "I must have fainted it's too good to be true." The wallet contained $700. |