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...Percheron horse who has had a mild case of diphtheria for almost nine years wore a garland of flowers around his neck for a party last week. He was 14-year-old Doc Dobbin, oldest diphtheria antitoxin horse in the laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons at New Brunswick, N. J. Because Doc Dobbin has produced antitoxin enough to treat 30,000 children, Dr. John F. Anderson, Squibb vice president, gave a birthday party on the anniversary of Doc Dobbin's ninth year of service. One hundred school children from Highland Park, N. J. attended. The birthday table...
Then Dr. Anderson explained what Doc Dobbin had done to deserve the party. When he was five years old a dose of diphtheria germs was injected into Doc Dobbin's flank. Within a day, he felt sick. A week later when he had recovered he was given another dose. After the third injection, each succeeding dose was increased. At the end of three months, Doc Dobbin could stand ten times as much diphtheria poison as he had first received. He had formed substances in his blood to fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin...
...search of Commander Clark's own flagship, the Concord, and of the destroyer Sands and the repair ship Dobbin, discovered four more baggages. They said they were Billy Lacer, Rose McQuire, Flossie Rice, Ramilda Avery, "waitresses from Philadelphia." They had been sneaked aboard at New Orleans. Commander Clark led his ships into Key West. The waitresses were disembarked. Courts martial began...
...Department of the Interior published a report by Geologists C. E. Dobbin, V. H. Barnett and W. T. Thom Jr. of the U. S. Geological Survey. They said that the 75-foot coal seams near Minturn, Wyo., are only part of huge system of seams embracing Campbell, Crook, Weston, Toniobrara and Converse Counties, which contain some 14 billion tons. Some 17.8 billion tons is the U. S. coal mining total to date...
Take Rover a-romping, ride Dobbin...