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...name a specific poison. But for reasons which you no doubt appreciate, the more indefinite such reports, the better. Why not say "he took a poison"? Or, better yet, "he was found dead"? There are some interesting statistics on the relation of suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter a weak-willed person from suicide. Specific mention of "a bathroom germicide" warns housekeepers to keep their household poisons in well-locked cupboards...
...consulting engineer, last week arranged the merger of three sanitary and plumbing supply concerns-the J. L. Mott Co. (factories at Trenton), the Laib Co. (factories at Louisville), and the Columbia Sanitary Mfg. Co. (factories also at Louisville). The J. L. Mott Iron Works, founded in 1828 at Mott Haven, N. Y. (now part of New York City), was the first U. S. company to make sanitary equipment. Portland Cement. Peerless Portland Cement Co. of Detroit and New Egyptian Portland Cement Co. of Port Huron, Mich., have agreed to consolidate; combined assets...
...haven't a thing to wear...
Last week at Douglaston, Long Island, onetime farming community, now haven of commuters, a teapot which had simmered for many a long month finally boiled over. The simmering started in February when the vestry of Zion Episcopal Church asked the pastor, Rev. M. W. Black, to resign. In asking for the resignation the vestry offered Rev. Black 18 months pay if he would leave quietly, permanently, and at once. Rev. Black, married, father of three, quietly refused to leave, continued to occupy Zion's pulpit. In August the vestry, vexed, refused to pay Rev. Black further salary. Still...
Divorced. Walter Camp Jr., son of the late famed "Father of American Football," by Frances English Camp; in New Haven. She charged desertion, was awarded eleven-year-old Walter Camp...