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...under the subheading "Ooze," writing of the Congo valley, you say "lions, tigers, etc." Kindly inform me if the species of tiger inhabiting the Congo valley is in any way related to the blind-tigers which infest all valleys in America? Query: Are there any tigers to be found in Africa, outside of zoological gardens and menageries...
...first disciples included thoughtful men puzzled by the frequent inefficacies of regular medicine, which considered the food and drugs absorbed by the body all important for health and cure. But more numerous were the hodgepodge who found in uncritical osteopathy a quick means of earning easy money as "doctors." Osteopathy stirred the opposition of regular medicine, and osteopathy fought with club and clout...
Unusual attention met the appeal of the Post Office Dept. For the first time in 58 years, more than two companies submitted bids. And when the three offers were examined, last week, Postmaster General New found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world...
...proposed controversy was one in which they might not remain neutral. Their sympathies were not with the presidential candidate. Hence they were forced to take the side of the fundamentalist clergyman. But before they did so, even as he had cast reflections upon Governor Smith's record, they found it advisable to reflect upon Dr. Straton...
Roach Straton has never achieved unusual prominence except in the negative sense of emerging, at frequent periods, from obscurity. He emerged for the first time from obscurity in Norfolk, Va.; (see p. 10) in Manhattan he has found increasingly ingenious methods of achieving publicity...