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...Passed a bill appropriating $99,152,885 for deficiencies occurring during the present session including $2,353,747 for U. S. Marines in Nicaragua; $50,000,000 to carry out the Alien Property Act; $6,235,000 for purchase of the Cape Cod canal; $5,000,000 for District of Columbia realty; $17,513,500 for Federal buildings throughout the land. The Bill went to the Senate. It brought the public moneys voted this session to a total of 3.3 billions exclusive of 1.38 billions in permanent appropriations. Total appropriations were 4.1 billions last year. Of the half-billion increase...
...Cod-Liver Oil & Ergosterol. In cod-liver oil, is a substance which contains Vitamin D and which helps both to prevent and cure rickets (bone disease). That substance (provitamin) acts like a solid alcohol (sterol) and is believed to be ergosterol. If ergosterol is exposed to certain wave lengths of ultraviolet light for certain periods the potency of this provitamin is increased so powerfully that, for treating rickets, one ounce of it is as good as six tons of cod-liver oil.-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan...
Since the disappearance of the new launch "Red Top" in the Cape Cod Bay it has been decided to order another speed launch to take the place of the ill-fated craft intended for the use of Coach E. J. Brown '96, head coach of the Harvard University crew squad...
...reported yesterday. The powerboat left Greenport, Long Island, early last Saturday morning to make the voyage to Cambridge. It was piloted by two men, one of them the designer of the craft, and was expected to complete the run by Monday afternoon. After passing through the Cape Cod canal, however, the "Red Top" and its crew disappeared...
Bundling. The winters about Cape Cod are cold and the evenings, in the epoch before the mightiest minds were turned to providing parlor entertainment, long and uninteresting. Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter...