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...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...
...Professor Harry Alfred Curtis of Yale listened in behalf of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. All the great Scandinavian chemical sel-skabs were well represented, as were Italian firms, and from France came the learned Professor L. Bretangnière most hospitable and informatively loquacious was famed Herr Doktor J. Bueb of the "I. G." Herr Doktor Bueb suggested complacently that it is a duty of governments to abolish all tariffs or taxes on nitrogen fertilizers and to secure their transport at preferential freight rates, because the more nitrate fertilization is encouraged the greater will be the agricultural produce...
Cemetery, Nuremberg, last week, by Common Councilman Herr Doktor Wagner. Drawing a deep breath, he declared: "Proudly Nuremberg calls him Son and Master in the same breath! Today we place a wreath upon this silent hill. Ach! Vita brevis, ars aeterna [Oh, Life is short (but), Art eternal...
...blood, sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever in cases of chronic diseases of the joints, obstinate suppuration, cardiac inflammation following chronic ulceration. Using the thermo-cauterizer...
Hohner of Hohner. "The expansion of the harmonica industry in modern imes has been in closely related ratio to be frequency and magnitude of modern wars." Thus postulated, at Manhattan ast week, Herr Doktor Will Hohner, on of him who founded the famed M. Hohner Harmonica Co. in 1856. Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still...