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...current report of the Field Museum, Chicago, Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, announced that he had received a rare Texas plated lizard, which he had long wanted. Found in a crate of lettuce by a grocer of Deerfield, Ill., it had come as a stowaway from southern Texas...
...wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental stations have not reached a large public, because amateurs have had difficulty in buying proper receiving sets. He consulted William S. Hedges, president of the Chicago Daily News radio station WMAQ. He said that if the Daily News would construct a television broadcasting station, Libby McNeill & Libby would...
Quick to denounce the candidacy of Grocer Norris was Senator Norris. Said he: "It's not in good faith. It's done to deceive the voters and muddle the situation. I'm finished unless the other George W. Norris is kept off the ballot." Senator Norris & friends loudly claimed that G. O. P. "standpatters" and the "Power Trust" were behind Grocer Norris. The Senator prepared to withdraw from the Republican primary and run as an independent...
Last week Chief Justice Goss of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Grocer Norris off the Republican ballot because his petition had not been legally filed July 3. Greatly relieved, Senator Norris, a 2-to-1 favorite, stayed in the party primary...
...even with the exclusion of Grocer Norris, the Republican senatorial contest remained freakish. Candidate of the Old Guard against Senator Norris was State Treasurer William M. Stebbins. Running also was Aaron Reed, 85, "sopping wet," white-bearded Madison lawyer who denounced Senator Norris as "the Great Objector, the stumbling block in the way of efficient legislation...