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Died. Alcide Mussolini, 64, of Predappio, Italy, foreman of sulphur mines, uncle of Premier Benito Mussolini; in Bologna. He was buried beside his brother Alessandro, father of the Premier...
...Italian Government, rejecting the aid, even of the Red Cross, prepared to deal with reparations and relief unassisted. Estimators were busy. Damage cost was put roundly at $18,500,000. With fine exactitude the number of homeless was put at 3,952. Professor Alessandro Malladra of the Vesuvius Observatory estimated that Etna had belched 523,000,000 cubic yards of lava...
Further "rotation" of the Mussolini Cabinet, last week, resulted in the appointment of another feudal scion, Professor-Deputy Alessandro Martelli to be Minister of National Economy...
...Last week was the death centenary of the man who first understood that electricity flows in currents measurable in pressure units. "Volts" and "voltage" were the work of Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia, Italy. His compatriot and contemporary, Luigi Galvani of Bologna, observing the spasms caused in dead frogs' muscles by contact with mixed metals and moisture had deduced that the muscles contained electricity. Volta examined the theory of "galvanism" and traced electricity, not to the muscles, but to the mixed metals and moisture. He piled pairs of silver and zinc...
...late Alessandro Mussolini was not only a blacksmith but a revolutionary, an Internationalist, an anti-religionist, and a devout apostle of Bacchus...