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...whip in the U. S. House of Representatives, wrote such reply as seemed necessary, saying, among other things: "[The American people] have been seeking and are entitled to at least a few months' relief now and then from meddlers, mischief makers and apostles of unrest who have become the bane of our modern American existence...
...Frenchmen in foreign lands-the employment of pidgin-English to disarm prospective customers-but Musa-Shiya's stroke outdid them all. Students of advertising waited to see what alert U. S. agency would first seize upon the idea to introduce, say, Turkish tobaccos, Italian spaghetti, Swedish locomotives ("Ay bane one strong feller"), Negress pancake flour ("Hump yo'se'f, boy! Pick up yo' knife an' fo'k!") or Jewish haberdashery ("Oy yoy! Soch a fine...
Slagle, whose elusive speed has been the bane of eastern tacklers for the last two years, is likely to be on the side lines at the opening kick-off, but will be ready to enter the game at any moment. Slagle is not the only back who will give the Crimson forwards plenty to think about, since Williams, Prendergast, and Caulkins, all big factors in the Princeton victory of last year, will see action in tomorrow's contest...
...photochemical process for producing naturally colored cinema films at no greater expense or effort than black and white effects require. An ordinary camera was used and an ordinary monochromatic film, treated specially but simply. No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector. Fringes of color-bane of films made with filters by superimposing sets of negatives-were unknown. The only features of the invention described by correspondents were: 1) that the film had to be run twice as fast as a black and white film (i.e. 32 instead of 16 exposures per second); 2) that the negative...
...Mosquito Bane. At Atlantic City, N. J., Dr. William Rudolphs of Rutgers told the 13th annual convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association that, after four years' study, hs had found he was safe for two or three hours from the itch-producing proboscides of mosquitoes, no matter how ravenous, after smearing on his epidermis: 14 units of ordinary insect-powder extract and 96 units of vaseline, cold cream or face-powder...