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Governor Comstock soon made the holiday optional and many banks outside Detroit reopened with severe restrictions on withdrawals. In Ann Arbor, home of the State University, banks allowed $20 to heads of families. Banks in the northern peninsula across Lake Michigan resumed normal business...
...Society of American Bacteriologists held their annual meeting at Ann Arbor this year, and in the last day of the meeting, December 30, M. J. Rosenau, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, was named vice-president. Professor W. M. Clark of Johns Hopkins, University was elected president of the society...
...leave of absence, went out to California's Mt Wilson. To Mt. Wilson's 100-in. reflector he attached a photo-electric cell (which translates faint light into a current of electricity) and continued his studies of the brightness and color of stars. At Ann Arbor Mich, last month he was ready to tell the National Academy of Sciences that estimates of star distances from the earth must be revised from 10% to 200%. Other astronomers hailed his announcement as confirmation of their own researches in the subject during the past ten years...
...many years. The number of years was what made the story, as a murder story, a newspaper hoax and a scientist's delight. Professor Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota gave the story its first publication. Speaking before the National Academy of Science meeting at Ann Arbor last week, he set the number of years at some 200 centuries. That would make the Minnesota maid more than 10,000 years older than any human remains yet discovered in North America. She was found under twelve feet of glacial drift in Ottertail County, Minn.-first proof that...
Lantern-jawed Harry Newman, who customarily throws passes for the touchdowns that are likely to make Michigan this year's Western Conference champion, ran 70 yd. for one and 28 for the other that settled Chicago, 12 to 0, at Ann Arbor...