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Worms. In Philadelphia, a gravedigger was busy making a house for a dead man. From the four brown walls of this house, little red worms leaned out, their slim questioning bodies bowing and writhing from round tunnels, like windows or portholes, as they sensed their purveyor working. He, "Joe" (last...
Cholera. A severe epidemic of cholera was reported from the region of Nanking, where most of the fighting was centred. Bodies were said to be piled high along the banks of the Yangtze, hundreds of corpses floating down the great river.
To the President at Ouster Park last week came Herbert C. Hoover, reported on conditions in the flood area. His report centred upon the following points: The Federal Government normally appropriates some $16,000,000 yearly for control and navigation of the Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by...
President Max Mason of Chicago University was host last week to an Institute for Administrative Officers of Institutions of Higher Learning. Discussions centred on his proposition that colleges will get nowhere while they work on "the assumption that the majority of students come to our colleges to resist education." Whether...
Last week's flood defense centred in the point of this finger. The levee at McCrea, on the east bank of the Atchafalaya in the parish of Pointe Coupee, was weakening. At last reports it appeared likely that the east-Atchafalaya system would give way, permitting waters from the Atchafalaya...