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Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
...East seems more affected than the West. San Francisco's Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger knew of very few cases. At the University of Missouri there were none; students are being instructed in protecting themselves. Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen of Chicago thought that his community had only the usual number of cases, not enough for alarm. New York City's worst centre seems to be the Greenwich Village neighborhood. Vacationists have imported many cases from Europe. Partially isolated communities, like colleges, have been able to eradicate the disease when it appeared. At Smith College, Dr. Anna Root...
...wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with two firm feet to fall on, but she turns weak as water before her outlandish Syrian lover. Best scene: farewell of Bertha Geiger. half-cracked old family servant, to her mistress who does not remember...
...unhappy, unable to settle down. Then Annice breaks the engagement and there is no need for him to. So he loses his job in despair and starts merrily to the dogs. When he has practically reached them he is rescued 'from freezing to death by Minna Geiger. She falls in love with him, but he realizes that they will never be happy together so he leaves her. He goes back to France, still restless, but he finds that France has changed too and does not satisfy him. Then, by accident, he reads of the suicide of Annice's father...
...seconds made by McKim of Princeton in the 100-yard dash and of 23 3-5 seconds made by Taylor of Princeton in the 220-yard low hurdles, will not be permitted to stand because of the strong favoring wind, it was announced last night by Mr. Albert Geiger Jr., the referee...