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A New Name for Swiss Cheese 1927

WHEN IT’S REALLY SWISS CHEESE
SCANDALS in the Swiss Cheese Family, the reformers sadly admit, have made it almost as notorious as the Swiss Family Robinson. It is not merely that a ring of cheese around a hole bigger than a silver dollar, and filled in with mustard, as the New York Evening World complains, has [...]

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Saving the Texas Longhorns 1927

TEXAS longhorns are nearly extinct.
The thundering herd has joined the buffalo, the six-shooter and the brass rail as a vanished part of the more or less wild life of the old West. A few specimens of “the most spectacular domesticated— or semi-domesticated—animal that America has produced” will be preserved by the Government in the Wichita [...]

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