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Their gadding about follows the tradition that Joseph Linz, a St. Louis watchmaker, began when he set up shop in the railroad town of Denison, Tex. in 1877, not long after the last big Indian raid. He sent brother Albert Linz roaming the Southwest by buggy and train, sleeping in railroad stations with his head pillowed on his jewel box, while he and two other brothers-Simon and Ben-ran the store...
...crew, comprised primarily of bolters from the varsity football squad, to a great deal for the Crimson's third varsity eight, which will enter the Steward's Cup race. There are three different ight racs, first, second and third closs, and Coach Tom Bolles at Newell and Coach Blake Denison at Weld have entered their boats to correspond with the quality of the competition expected in each class...
Help from a Frog. The doctors were deeply interested in a simple test for pregnancy, presented by the White Cross Hospital of Columbus, Ohio and Denison University of Granville, Ohio. It involved no new scientific principles, but was an improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases...
...modern life done to U.S. college presidents? Last week, some 400 of them got together in Manhattan to talk the matter over. It was the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, and the association's retiring president, Kenneth I. Brown, who heads Ohio's Denison University, had a few final words...
...Salem witchcraft trials, arrived at a more tolerant vision of life, spent his last widower years wooing likely widows, and married three times. In his vivid diary, one of the best mirrors of the social life of his time, Judge Sewall noted his gifts to the Widow Denison: "K. Georges Effigies in Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence." He admitted to himself that "My bowels yern towards Mrs. Denison," but added, perhaps with an eye to her lack of money, "I think God directs me in his Providence...