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Last week came the last meeting of the Last Man Club. At the head of a table ringed with 33 crepe-decked chairs stood Charles Lockwood, 87, of Chamberlain. S. Dak. Tears ran down his wrinkled cheeks as he opened the bottle of wine. ''After our experiences in that war . . . it seemed funny to us." he said. "But now (hat I am last I see no humor in it." He filled his glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart...
...United Press heard about it, hurriedly telephoned Col. Lindbergh, received belated admittance for Acme, an apology, an invitation to luncheon. ? Ridder papers: New York Staats-Zcitung, Herald, Journal of Commerce, Jamaica (N. Y.), Long Island Press. Seattle Times (minority interest), St. Paul Dispatch, Pioneer Press; Aberdeen, S. Dak. American, News...
Casselton, N. Dak...
...pension principle as a new policy, but because he disapproved of the size and details of the measure, Congress scrambled to give him a bill of the same kind which he would accept. No. 1 Pension Scrambler in the House was Representative Royal Cleaves Johnson of Aberdeen, S. Dak., chairman of the House Veterans Committee. Congressman Johnson, 47, enlisted in the regular Army in January 1918, won a lieutenant's commission, went to France in July and as an infantry officer won the D. S. C. for battle bravery. He it was who whipped together last week's revised bill...
...late great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the actual germ of trachoma, contagious blinding eye disease. Drs. William Chris Fimioff and Phillips Thygeson of Denver reported to the Convention that the organism caused trachoma in monkeys. Remains to test it on a human. The test human may be Woo Dak-San, Silver City, N. Mex., Chinese sentenced to be executed for murder. To him last week was suggested a choice and to New Mexico's Governor R. C. Dillon was presented a plea-that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment provided Woo Dak-San subject his eyes to infection...