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...Guppy fish, tadpoles and flatworms die in it, but mice fed with it seem to get tipsy. It has been found in slightly higher than normal concentration (one part in 4,500) in the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake, the sap and wood of willow trees, borax deposits. The hydrogen of honey, coal benzene and kerosene was found comparatively rich in D. But in the Sun's atmosphere only one atom of D in 100,000 of hydrogen appears to be present...
Lesser Slim Figure Bath: "Every physician knows . . . that this absurd mixture of cornstarch, borax, baking soda, etc. can have not the slightest effect in the reduction of weight...
Married. Michael Cudahy, Chicago meat-packing scion (grandson); and Mary Jacklyn Borax, dancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Married. Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson Ogle, novelist; and Christian Eliot, nephew of Granville John Eliot, Earl of St. Germans; in Las Vegas, Nev., day after she was granted a divorce from her third husband, Arthur James Ogle in Juarez, Mex. Divorced. Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son; by Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21; in Minden, Nev. Elliott, who had established residence at Lake Tahoe, followed a pre-arranged program by filing suit first, charging "extreme mental cruelty" which caused...
...late great Stephen Tyng Mather was taken from his Chicago borax business by Secretary of the Interior Lane, who two years later made him first head of the National Park System. Director...
Died. Francis Marion ("Borax") Smith, 85; of injuries sustained in a fall; in Oakland, Calif. Prospecting for gold in Death Valley, he found great borax deposits. Before he was 30 he controlled the U.S. market, was many times a millionaire. At 50, his fortune gone, he got a fresh start from a silver mine he had bought and forgotten. At 75 he bought a new borax deposit, made a new fortune. When he died most of that was gone...