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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During his two months' imprisonment, Mr. Bergdoll has had the freedom of the prison garden, has dined exclusively upon meals supplied by a neighboring hotel, has grown a mustache. He appeared nervous and acutely conscious that a possible ten-year sentence might await him if convicted. Large drops of perspiration dampened his brow as he took the stand in a courtroom from which spectators were excluded "for the protection of public morals...
...There the women schoolteachers, whose voice is heard most strongly in the National Union of Teachers, have been agitating for some years to obtain sex equality on the payroll. Last year the Board of Education adopted a scale granting women 83% of men's pay and the contest has grown hotter since...
When Nina Michaud came back to Chesterbridge?brimming with life, a celebrated sculptress, still single, with her grown son?she found them thus: John, the burntout editor of the Times, unbending before the new regime of upstart Jew manufacturers; Mildred, a proud, suffering, spent stranger in his house. John was able to make some amends to Nina. He abandoned his code to the extent of lying to get their Communist son out of jail. But neither Nina nor the boy really needed even that. They were self-sufficient. They loved him, thanked him and took their ways. John accepted...
JUNGLE JOE?Clarence Hawkes?Lothrop, Lee & Shepard ($1.50). Unfortunate the boy or girl who grows up, or has grown up, without reading about Shovelhorns, the moose monarch; Shaggycoat, the astute beaver; Black Bruin, the genial bear, and a score of other wild personages whose biographies have been set down by the typewriter of painstaking Clarence Hawkes...
...cause is still obscure. One influence may be the fading of the anti-typhoid vaccine given the War troops in 1917 and 1918. This vaccine was presumed to be efficacious for about seven years. Also an uninoculated group of males has grown up since the War. Then too early in 1925 there was a mild epidemic of this fever caused by infected oysters; this source was quickly shut off. The fever may be borne by water or milk; but in the large cities the water supplies seem to have been well guarded, the milk supplies too for the most part...