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...Elbert Hubbard, flowing-haired, flowing-tied purveyor of philosophical-artistic tripe to the U. S. of a generation ago, was drowned when the Lusitania was sunk. To his son, Elbert II, he left a lucrative property-the Roycrofter Corporation in East Aurora, N. Y. Inspired by William Morris, 19th-Century British arts-&-crafter, the Roycrofters printed and bound books, made elegant whatnots of pottery, wood, metal and hand-tooled leather. After the elder Hubbard's death, however, the community slipped financially, lately was $160,000 in the red. Last week, a religious organization called the Federation of Churches...
...landed on the Cuban coast in a fishing smack (which was hailed and questioned by a Spanish man-o'-war), traveled on foot across jungled Oriente Province for seven days, until he found General Calixto Garcia, leader of Cuban insurgents, and delivered his oral message (not a letter, Elbert Hubbard to the contrary). The "message" asked General Garcia about the strength of his troops, which were to collaborate with the U. S. Army in fighting Spain. President McKinley's comment, when he and his Cabinet received Hero Rowan, was: "Colonel, you have performed a very brave deed...
From a clear-minded Cleveland diagnostician, Dr. Edward Elbert Woldman, 41, last week came a simple method of detecting gastrointestinal lesions in from two to six hours. He dissolves a pinch of the common cathartic, phenolphthalein, in a third of an ounce of alcohol, dilutes it with two-thirds of an ounce of water, has the patient drink the mixture on an empty stomach. If the mucous lining of the intestinal tract is in the least eroded, the phenolphthalein quickly seeps into the blood stream.* The harmlessly adulterated blood in due course swishes through the kidneys, leaving a residue...
...four post is hotly contested between Alex Whitman '41 and Walt Reed '41. When Elbert Moffat broke his rib at number four on the Freshman Firsts, Reed moved in to take his place. After Moffat returned last week Reed was shifted to starboard where he became a throat to Whitman who has been rowing number three oar consistently all year. Because Moffat's position is practically assured, one of these other men will move down to the combination post...
American Youth Congress (Mon. 4:15 p. m. MBS.) Peace is discussed by Senators James Pinckney Pope and Elbert Duncan Thomas...