Word: ill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Aug. 1, membership in the mighty Associated Press has been granted to the Newport, Ark. Independent; Yreka, Calif. News; Sanford, Fla. Signal and Times; Sterling, Ill. Daily Gazette; Cherokee, Ia. Daily Times; Grand Haven, Mich. Tribune; Charlottesville, Va. Daily Progress; Two Rivers, Wis. Reporter and Chronicle; Mexico City El Universal Grafico...
...unknown company, had acted far more drastically than Dr. Murray; at Minneapolis he had spoken far more emphatically. Said he: "More than 99% of our executives are troubled with constipation. ... I have also found in our group that lack of exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise and the wearing of suspenders. There are more...
...Times' story which followed was written by Professor William Herbert Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able...
...cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...
Capt. Anton Heinen, builder of Zeppelins and the ill-fated U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was made a citizen of the U. S. last week at Toms River, N. J. His examination score was 100%. He is now engaged in building two dirigibles for the U. S. Navy...