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Pernicious anemia laid its pale fingers upon the body of General Isaac R. Sherwood. For three months he struggled with it, as it sucked the life blood from his frame. Toward the end he became unconscious. And last week he died...
Capt. T. J. J. See, Government mathematician and astronomer at the Mare Island naval base (San Francisco, Cal.), has been conducting exhaustive experiments and computations upon-Nothing. Greater men than he have done the same, and he has been utilizing their findings - Sir Isaac Newton (gravity), Pierre Simon LaPlace (astronomy), Sir Christopher Wren (architecture). Nothing is important, for it permeates and envelops Everything. It would be nice to know definite things about it, what it is and does. Last week Capt. See announced something about Nothing...
...first act of The Music Robber, an opera in jazz, with music by an American (Isaac Vangrove, onetime assistant conductor of the Chicago Opera Company) and with lyrics by an American (Richard L. Stokes, dramatic critic of the St. Louis Post-Despatch) was given a gentle premier in the St. Louis Municipal Theatre last week. Dignity was the keynote. There was no saxophone in the orchestra, nor any instrument with a belly for giggling, or a ribald larynx. Tenor Forest Lament lifted up his voice impressively. An audience of some 9,000 who had come to catcall, hump their shoulders...
Later, Pope Pius, a Canadian pilgrimate and 60,000 of the faithful knelt in veneration and beatified the tortured priests whose sufferings were blazoned on the banners. The beatified: John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Anthony Daniel, Charles Gamier, Noel Charbanel, Jean de la Lande, René Goupil and Isaac Jogues...
...Dunne, Mrs. Robert T. Fisher, Mrs. Elisha Flagg, Mrs. Charles F. deGanahl, Mrs. Lewis M. Gibb, Mrs. Charles P. Greenough 2d, Mrs. Chester N. Greenough, Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell, Mrs. Henry E. Hammond, Mrs. George A. Harlow, Mrs. Conrad Hobbs, Mrs. James R. Hodder, Mrs. Arthur Ingraham, Mrs. Isaac Kelley, Mrs. David M. Little Jr., Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Edward Lowry...