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Oldsters who first beheld a Ferris wheel and an electric light bulb at Chicago's Fair of 1893 will appreciate the "Century of Progress" idea when they see the show's location. Within view of one of the country's tallest city skylines, on the lakefront from 12th to 39th Streets, the buildings surround a long lagoon and stand almost entirely on "made" land that did not exist when the Columbian Exposition was held five miles south of the Loop. Approaching this year's Fair from the heart of town the visitor's first sight...
...telephone in the upstairs garage, where the stables used to be. Not until after one o'clock did the garage proprietor bother to go down to where the strange pair worked at their accounts. At the bottom of the subcellar stairs, visible by the light of one yellow bulb glowing dismally in the office, the garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet, Lee Weinstein was found. He had been shot seven...
Japanese light bulb manufacturers, gazing thoughtfully at the news from Germany last week, organized the first anti-Semitic mass meeting that Tokyo correspondents could remember...
...Lubash, who lectures on urology at Flower Hospital Medical School, had a mercury-vapor quartz bulb made a little larger than a match head. This he attached to a copper wire covered by a silk-wound ureteral catheter and attachable to a high frequency apparatus. Last week was too early to show cures in his work, but he had reason to believe that healing light would work as well in a kidney as anywhere else...
Hillyer's trouser-leg was pulled very strongly; Hillyer reported that the psychic's feet were not near his feet when his trouser cuff was pulled. An electric bulb on the ceiling fiashed on and off. Buzzers rang, a "teleplasmic" arm grasped objects on the table in the dark. The arm pulled Dr. Boring's hair. "Dr. Boring placed his nose in the doughnut and encouraged Walter to pull as hard as possible. He was pulled with a fumbling horizontal movement strongly enough to hurt a little...