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Last week at Albany, Governor Roosevelt continued blissfully deaf, dumb & blind about his candidacy. When his friends urged him to get openly into the fight and switch to national issues, he declared publicly: "I'm too busy right here as Governor to give any thought to anything else. This job is getting bigger all the time." However he did pause long enough to assure itinerant United Pressman Raymond Clapper that business would have nothing to fear from Democratic rule at the White House...
...grey-walled amphitheatre on Northwestern University's McKinlock (downtown Chicago) Campus last week a short, stocky, professor with a twinkle in his eye told how the deaf may hear through their fingers by means of an invention he had perfected. The profes- sor: Dr. Robert Harvey Gault, 57, for 22 years professor of psychology at Northwestern. The invention: the Gault Teletactor...
...combination of the telephone and the radio. The speaker talks into a microphone. By wires the voice is transmitted to the receiver, much more powerful and sensitive than the telephone receiver, topped by an aluminum plate, which vibrates with each tone of the voice. On this plate the deaf places his fingers, feels the sound of the voice...
...nephew, Otis Wood, had discovered her last March through the death of her sister with whom she had been living since 1917 in the Herald Square Hotel, an antiquated hostelry near Fifth Avenue. Now he had her declared incompetent, was himself appointed guardian. Aged 93, nearly blind, nearly deaf, Mrs. Wood had not ventured from her room since 1927. She was wasted to 70 Ib. on a diet consisting almost solely of eggs and coffee cooked by herself. She had hallucinations that her nose grew out of her forehead and that her ears overtopped her head. But she still...
...home for the deaf at Gorlitz, Silesia, to warn the inmates of fire, every mattress was equipped with a shaker, electrically agitated...