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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn the fuses with crimped fulminate of mercury caps attached were found on the north side of the railroad right of way. Hence, the location of bombs was not part of a smuggling plot diverted from Agua Prieta to the east, but a plot to bomb the train of Mexican Federals (due between five and six that morning in Naco) who had been interned at Fort Bliss after the Ciudad Juarez fall and recently released and shipped to Xaco under protest of the Governor of Arizona...
...orange, prepared to sink his teeth into it, halted at a horrid sight?maggots! He fairly ran to a laboratory where, under a microscope, he made a terrible discovery: the grubs were larvae of Halterophora capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly), most vicious and destructive of dipterous pests, never before found in the U. S. Out went the alarm over Florida. Inspection showed that the infestation had spread through three counties ?Seminole, Orange and Lake American Legionaries volunteered as fruit inspectors...
...costumes, it was found that the Celonese brand fabrics used by the Earl Carroll Vanities are the most successful for theatrical work and the same type will be used by the Dramatic Club. This is the first time that these fabrics have been used in collegiate or amateur circles. It has already been arranged that a professional modiste be retained to supervise the costuming during the four days of the play...
...bequest of about $68,000 to found a department of eugenics at Harvard was awarded yesterday to Jefferson Medical College after a litigation for the money brought on by Harvard's refusal of the gift. The award was made by the Philadelphia orphan's court...
Upon investigation, it was found that the cost of erecting a concrete structure would involve too great a cost since the seats at the open end are undesirable. Bolted temporary steel stands were also found impractical inasmuch as the cost of erecting them and removing them would amount to about $40,000 annually...