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...surprise she learned that the hoof-and-mouth disease had begun to rage among the cattle of California, that Arizona had taken fright and had promptly clapped into quarantine all travelers from that direction. Humans are mildly susceptible to this malady, and are capable of transmitting it through their persons or luggage. Galli-Curci and other motorists were therefore disinfected at Yuma...
...Hoof-and-mouth disease is a fever occurring chiefly among cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by the appearance of an eruption of vesicles on the mucous membranes of the mouth, the udder, or the delicate skin between the hoofs. When the vesicles break, a contagious liquid runs out, transmitting the disease from animal to animal. Man may contract it from intermediary objects, from direct contact with the infected animals, or from their milk. The disease often occurs among milkers and handlers of cattle. It is mild and not fatal...
...Appropriated $1,500,000 to fight the hoof and mouth disease in Cali- fornia and other Pacific Coast States...
...Horse. Eleven years ago Master Robert II first touched hoof in Ireland. He promised well, but failed. Finally he was put to work and many was the furrow he ploughed. It is even told that he was several times seen drawing the laborious milkwagon. Still he maintained his aristocratic air and once, by chance, was led to the hunting field...
...official camera test. It screens well-in particular the midnight ride of Paul Revere. In view of this producer's Birth of a Nation and the Klansmen's ride, it might be expected that he would express the drum beats of a rising nation with hoof beats; they charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite trick of shifting scenes abruptly demands-at times-a jackrabbit...