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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. George Munro Schurman, 37, son of U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman; to Miss Kerstin H. Taube, 36, of Manhattan, interior decorator, daughter of late Count Henning Gustav Taube; in Chappaqua...
Married. James Oliver Curwood Jr., 18, son of the late novelist (The Valley of Silent Men, Nomads of the North, The Country Beyond); to a Miss Helen Ford whom he met last year on The Floating University; in Livingston, Mont...
Halterophora Capitata, informally known as the Mediterranean fruit fly, arrived in Florida mysteriously, probably late last year. Some say it may have traveled in the straw around the liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave...
Exceptional in its character, Commercial National has also been exceptional in its progress. The bank was formed with capital stock of $7,000,000 and surplus of $7,000,000. A late June statement showed deposits of $76,589,035.84, undivided profits of $886,351.04. At this rate the bank, at the end of its first year of business life, will have attracted more than $150,000,000 in deposits and earned more than $1,500,000. It has about $40,000,000 in cash on hand...
Later Dr. Theobald Smith, of the Rockefeller Institute, found that if a little diphtheria toxin were added to antitoxin the mixture would immunize animals against the disease. At once Dr. William Hallock Park, director of New York City's health department laboratories, and his associate, the late Dr. Abraham Zingher, began to immunize children with the toxin-antitoxin mixture. That mixture is what the "healthmobiles" were administering last week. Three to six months are necessary before immunity is established...