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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarlet fever begins with a sore throat. Fine, bright red dots appear on the neck. under the chin. The redness spreads over the entire body, except around the mouth which becomes a clownish white. The infection frequently spreads to the inner ears and kidneys, causing great trouble. Upon convalescence the skin scales and peels off. Children between two and ten years are most susceptible. They catch it usually from infected children breathing moistly in their faces...
...mansion (TIME, Nov. 19) and other Lake Shore Drive parcels. But Vincent Bendix him self is perhaps most "at home" when entertaining tycoons, on the 38th floor of the Bankers' Building on Chicago's Clark Street. He sits at one end of a large, glass-topped table, around which are nine straight-backed chairs. There are five windows,, softly curtained, and a thick soft carpet. Along one entire wall is hung a tapestry which reaches from ceiling to floor. Behind the tapestry, in a kind of recess, is a large and well equipped refreshment counter. Across the room...
Front pages the next day streamed with the news. The wires rushed the story around the world. Jenny Lind, Galli-Curci, Marion Talley ... the man in the street learned a new name. Overnight the 19-year-old girl became a national institution...
...Perhaps the finest, largest gingko in the U. S. is on the grounds of Henry Douglas Pierce, No. 1415 North Meridian St., Indianapolis. The Pierce gingko is more than 8 ft. around. Planted when no larger than a walking stick, it grew amazingly, its roots bathed in soapy drainage from the Pierce laundry. The gingko, bright yellow in autumn, has a curious habit of shed-cling each and every one of its leaves in a single night...
...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...