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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usually the choice for this highest colonial post lies between two types of men: a military man like the late Leonard Wood; a civilian like Statesman Stimson. Last week President Hoover found his man, Dwight Filley Davis, in whom are neatly combined the best characteristics of both types. His appointment seemed to please every one except a group of U. S. citizens at Manila who had sought promotion for Vice Gov. Eugene A. Gilmore...
What the deadly fumes were composed of was only guessed. Apparently it was a mixture. The coroner had the blood of several victims examined and found bromine and hydrocyanic acid (both deadly). Others hazarded that there were quantities of carbon monoxide in the gas. The fact that many, not apparently suffering at first, later succumbed, led to the supposition that nitrogen dioxide (brown gas like bromine) was one of the poisons...
...first the origin of the explosions was believed to have been the X-ray room where twelve bodies were found. Later it was placed in the film storage room in the basement. On the morning of the disaster one Buffery Bogg, steamfitter, had been called to repair a leaking steam pipe. He found the leak in the film room and removed a section of the covering, but the pipe was too hot to work on. So he went out and asked to have the steam turned off. When he returned the room was filled with steam. Something on the ceiling...
...loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait of the late Millicent found a spectral voice...
Continued the professor: "Every metre of earth is valuable; we have already found what is probably the finest collection of instruments of torture in Europe...