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Formalin for Posterity. About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
Despite over $40 worth of telegrams and telephone calls. Dane and Walcott so far have been unable to locate any live Japanese silkworm eggs in this country. This problem they expect to solve this morning when the reply to a cablegram to Brazil is due to arrive...
...about a new non-shrinkable, waterproof hat for men developed by the M. & B. Headwear Co. A letter from Irving Joel of that company tells what happened next: "The magazine first appeared on the newsstands, to the best of my knowledge, on Thursday. The following Monday we had a cablegram from Zurich, Switzerland. And since that time we have received requests for information from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, The Hague, Holland, Hong Kong, China and Canada. In addition to this foreign response, we have received well over 200 inquiries from both individuals and stores in this country, and they...
...cablegram from London to the CRIMSON Blanshard stated that 'the battle between public and Catholic education is an irrepressible conflict in which 90 percent of the American people will agree with President Conant instead of Archbishop Cushing...
Previously, a cablegram from General Eisenhower was read in an effort to gain approval for the bill. Eisenhower, in favor of the program, declared that the nation has an obligation to train its young men to defend themselves. He cited past wars in which the nation has been caught relatively unprepared as the primary reason for the passage of U.M.T. or a similar plan...