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Miss Millspaugh's running mate as "healthiest U. S. boy" was Mortimer Foxman, 16, 5 ft. 7?? in., 133 lb., who after high-school hours works in his mother's Chicago electrical shop...
...birth the average U. S. child weighs 7?? lb., contains 270 bones, measures just 20½ in. from top to toe. Its stomach holds 1 oz. of food, the capacity increasing to 6 oz. in six months. At 3 weeks its diapers must be changed 13 times a day; at 3 months 20 times. It begins to crawl at 9 months, toddles and babbles words on the first day of its second year. At 3 the child can name keys, knives, pencils and answer correctly whether it is boy or girl. At 6 it can count to 13, distinguish nickels, dimes...
...Fair were off. George Miner, agent at the Northern Pacific station, was selling travelers' insurance on false teeth and Paris Cleaners were doing three ladies' dresses for $1. Field mouse kid shoes were on sale at Smithers for $6.75 and rib boil could be purchased at Hennessy Bros. for 7?...
Agriculture, The Farm Board was flayed for "stabilizing wheat from $1.25 per bu. down to 30¢, corn from 75¢ per bu. down to 20¢, cotton from 15¢ per Ib. down to 5¢, wool from 20¢ per Ib. down to 7??" at a public cost of $500,000,000. But Senator Barkley's only concrete suggestions were to lend the farmers more money like "other forms of industry and finance" and to "take the Government out of the dubious adventure of speculation in farm products...
...issue of participating Kreuger & Toll debentures which are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. For some months the Kreuger securities have been weak and on his last visit Ivar Kreuger spent much time consulting with market manipulators. Last week the Kreuger & Toll shares were especially weak, dropping from $7??? to $5 on tremendous volume. On the day preceding his suicide it was the most active stock on the New York Stock Exchange. This was also true on Saturday when it accounted for 25% of trading although no word of Ivar Kreuger's death had leaked...