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THE CHICAGO BANKER
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Your dealer can equip your f Camera with the Goerz Lens whether it is a Seneca, Century, Ansco, Premo or any Kodak
There is a Goerz Lens for work in which quickness is paramount.
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There is a Goerz Lens for long-distance work which brings the object especially near.
Enough of each of these three qualities is combined in the Goerz Dagor to make it the best all-around lens for the man who doesn’t wish to specialize but who wants one lens capable of the widest range of work.
Everyone who wishes to do really serious and good photographic work should insist on having his camera equipped with the Goerz Dagor. Any dealer in cameras or optical goods has, or can get, the Dagor. Our free catalogue, sent on request, describes Goerz Lenses, the XL Sector Shutter (quick, smooth, compact and accurate־), Trieder Binoculars (small in size, yet powerful) and Anschutz Cameras.
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that there was no danger, although the boat lost two propeller blades in its efforts to work loose. Finally a good-sized swell came along, and, with the assistance of the disabled engine, the Waubic was floated.
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Nashville Banker Dies
Nashville, Tenn., July 20.—Samuel J. Keith, for twenty-seven years president of the Fourth National Bank of this city, and one of the most prominent financiers in the South, died suddenly of heart disease in his 79th year, at his summer home at Ridgetop, near here.
Ffe was a native of Tennessee and a resident of Nashville for over sixty years. He had been vice-president of the First and Second National Banks of this city. His son, Walker Keith, is vice-president of the same bank and member of the Keith-Simmons Hardware
The Union Loan & Trust Company of Union City, Ind., will soon begin business.
The First National of Lott, Tex., is to erect a building.
Ohio Bankers on the Rocks
Members of the Ohio Bankers Association who made the lake trip from Toledo, where the annual convention was held, to Sault Ste. Marie and return, had a delightful trip, but met with a rather serious accident which for a time portended disaster. The party was caught for three hours on the rocks in the Georgian Bay, and it was only by the merest good fortune that the boat was worked loose without serious damage. This accident happened at noon on Friday, when the 300 members of the party were on the small sound steamer Waubic, which was boarded at Parry Sound for the trip through the Thirty Thousand Islands of the Georgian Bay to Midland. The big steamer Harmonic, on which the party traveled, met the party at Midland. The wind blew a gale and drove the little Waubic out of her course. Suddenly she crashed onto a field of submerged rocks, where she was locked for three hours. The captain and crew assured the passengers
Handbook on the Garden Yard
Nearly all bankers in the country own farms, and most of those in the large cities own large grounds, with gardens as a part of the plan. To all of both classes a book by Bolton Hall, entitled, “The Garden Yard; a Handbook of Intensive Farming,” will be a Godsend. Mr. Hall has given his attention to this important matter for a number of years, and is the author of several works calculated to induce men to undertake the cultivation of the soil on a small scale, with a few acres, or even in city homes. The book in hand is of particular interest to the city dweller who is inclined to make the soil of his backyard productive of vegetables or small fruits. It tells how soils should be handled and enriched, what may be planted with good result, how they should be planted, and what should be done while they are growing. The author treats his subject in a way to make himself understood by readers who would be befogged were he to drop into technicalities, and for this reason his book is particularly valuable. Its keynote is the declaration that “an intensive farm is only an enlarged garden patch,” and those who give the book the attention it deserves will reach the same conclusion. The author’s general treatment of his subject is instructive, and his specific advice in regard to various vegetables and small fruits is of particular value to the beginner. Mr. Hall’s book, which is illustrated, comes from the press of David McKay, Philadelphia, and sells at one
The Noble Thought Books
Here is something new in the book line as valuable as it is unique and pretty. “The Noble Thought Series” is a line of small books in soft leather covers, pocket size, done in green and gold, and beginning with the noblest thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antini-nus. The second volume will be devoted to the “noblest thoughts” of John Ruskin. These works are edited personally by Dana Estes, « head of the great Boston publishing house of Dana Estes & Co. If you have a son or a daughter, or a young friend whose future “thoughts” are of concern to you, don’t miss a volume. It will be the literary hit of 1909.
Latest of the Summer Novels
To those bound for the sea or lake shore. “In Whaling Days,” by Arnold Tripp, will appeal strongly, being a collection of stories of real people and real incidents that played prominent parts in New Bedford, Mass., when that town was the center of the whaling industry. The book has much quaint humor and interesting description. It is published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston, at $1.50.
Still another is “Waylaid by Wireless,’ by Edwin Balmer, published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. “Waylaid by Wireless: A Suspicion, a Warning, a Sporting Proposition, and a Transatlantic Pursuit,” is the full title of the novel. A young American spending the summer in touring England with a chance English acquaintance falls under suspicion of being a notorious crook. Over and over again he is gathered into the police toils, only to be rescued by the clever tactics of an American girl, whom he has met on his way over. Wireless telegraphy plays an important part in the unfolding of the story, and an equally important part in its startling climax, which occurs on shipboard, while the principal personages in the tale are returning to America. The inevitable romance has some decidedly unusual features which increase its interest. The action is remarkably rapid—indeed, the story may well be characterized as breathless. The author possesses a keen sense of humor, which he uses with delightful effect.