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With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as "zero stroke," or "cipher stroke," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis...
William Johnston, whose new mystery novel. "The Waddington Cipher." (Doubleday, Page & Co.), is the first story that has ever been serialized over the radio, holds a unique newspaper position as suggestion editor or official idea man to the New York World. His work is to anticipate public interest--to guess what will interest newspaper readers, not only today, but tomorrow and next week. This position with no detail duties and freedom to scout all over the world for suggestions that will add interest to any department of the paper, has shaped itself out of the variety of new ideas that...
...TREASURE OF THE BUCOLEON- Arthur D. Howden-Smith-Brentano ($2.00). A cipher hidden in Elizabethan verse-secret stairs in an old English manor hall-a fabulous treasure secreted bv Byzantine emperors in the very belly of Constantinople-a gang of international cutthroats who are constantly sandbagging the legitimate treasure-seekers-gypsy brigands versus Turkish assassins - a spitfire gypsy lass equally ready with kiss or knife- these are some of the ingredients of as rattlingly energetic a yarn of adventure as any in some time...
...Marquis of Lorne writes on the "Partition of Africa," Erastus Wiman on "Over Production in Sumitres," Dr. Paul Gider on "Dr. Koch's Discovery" and Ignatius Donnelly evolves a new cipher from Shakspere's works in the shape of the words "Francis Bacon, Sir Nicholas Bacon's Son" occurring over and over again...
...KING, President.LOST.- Probably in the gymnasium on Saturday, a large black leather pocket-book, with silver corners and cipher letters C. A. L. on the side. In it were some visiting cards of the owner and his H. A. A. membership ticket, bearing the name of C. A. Lewis. Return to 50 Grays and get reward...