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...deJersey Harvard graduated from the College in 1915, returned to England and enlisted in the Grenadier Guards. Kenneth Harvard his younger brother, was transferred to the Guards and the brothers served together on the Western Front. Kenneth was killed in the fall of 1917, near Messines and his brother crept out the following night to recover the body and bury it. Lionel himself was killed on March 30, 1918, in the German drive on Amiens...
Cosmetics. "The cosmetic business has been a perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle removers contain ammoniated mercury, a caustic poison that eats the skin. If a substance is powerful enough to dissolve hair, it is powerful enough to dissolve skin. Using the x-ray to remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain...
...first view of the flood came at about 3 o'clock in the morning when we reached Southern Illinois and the Cairo district. For more than three hours the train crept very slowly over road beds which were almost entirely submerged. It gave one a rather creepy feeling to go along mile after mile and watch the water from one tram windows--water which in many cases was over the rails on which we were riding, and which entirely hid from our view the rails next us on the embankment...
...said, beginning to notice the thawing ice as it crept along the romonesque proportions of his sole, approached the Gothic outlines of a toe, "I can make Carver and Ripley and all of the boys so happy by quoting...
...Shelton adherents slapped thighs, exchanged felicitations over the destruction of "Shady Rest", an old roadhouse fortified as Birger headquarters. In November, some of the Shelton gang, progressive, modern-minded, bought an airplane, dropped bombs, scarred the landscape, missed "Shady Rest." Undiscouraged, they waited for a dark January night, crept close up under "Shady Rest's" steel-barred windows, stacked dynamite against its walls. A roar, a glare, and "Shady Rest" was a flaming ruin, tenanted by four dead bodies-three men, one woman. But Gunman Birger, fingers-crossed, rabbit-footed, was away when the dynamiters called...