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Prof. Walter Reed, of George Washington Univ.−Definition of yellow fever, its nature arid transmission, its elimination...
Reclamation. Homestead entrymen in reclamation projects on arid and semi-arid lands of the West have suffered from extravagant inefficiencies and mistakes of the Federal Government. The Reclamation Act of 1924, attached as a rider to the second deficiency bill, was eliminated by the Republican conferees in reporting the bill an hour before adjournment...
...daughter of the rival house triumphantly to marry. There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat and hef nervous brother, to square accounts, adapts Arliss as a father. It is the sort of picture which Americans are supposed to love, since it has comedy arid large business deals in it. But its appeal is chiefly through the quaint characterization and slow smile of Arliss, for the rest of the cast perform in rather convulsive manner. Taylor Holmes particularly can be quite distinctly heard screaming throughout most...
...Another unique exhibit (by Dr. Julius H. Hess, Chicago) was a completely equipped station for the care of premature infants. It included am electrically heated handbag for transporting premature babies from distant: points to the station, especially made garments, electrically heated cribs arid safe apparatus for bathing and feeding. Premature twins whose combined weight at birth was three and one-half pounds were brought by these methods to seven pounds each within three months...
...successful candidate has been forwarded a telegram of congratulation signed by the mock electorate in too, the nights' rest of these harassed statesmen should be slightly more recuperative than it has in the past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds way see a little farther into the future, which is at present concealed...