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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Currie sued for $50,000 libel damages when a prominent news organ, the Port Hope Guide, charged last June that on the day the World War Armistice was signed (Nov. 11, 1918) there was "deliberate and useless waste of human life at [the capture of] Mons [by Canadian troops] for the glorification of the Canadian Headquarters Staff." This and supplemental statements were generally taken to mean that even after General Currie had knowledge of the signing of the Armistice he ordered Canadian troops into an action during which several were killed on Armistice...
...were quite naturally surprised that so staid and lugubrious a representation should be the work of a 23-year-old native of Winston-Salem, N. C. With slow words, Donald Mattison explained about his picture. It was not intended as a sermon but only as "a remark upon life in New York...
...Bible Society, as follows: "The Holy Bible is not only great but high explosive literature. It works in strange ways and no living man can tell or know how that book in its journeyings throughout the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith. These things are hidden until some man or some people is touched beyond all this by divine fire, and the result is one of those great revivals of religion which repeatedly through the centuries have startled the world and stimulated...
...have known, they may go to witch-doctors called mediums who pretend that by saying hocus-pocus or by going into a trance, they can make dead people say things to people who are living. This is false magic; humbler fellows who are content to imitate the mysteries of life and death with 52 cards, a white handkerchief and a tailcoat, are annoyed by such lying fakers; they delight in demonstrating their absurdity. Famed Harry Houdini did it before he died. Famed Joseph Dunninger does it now, the same way, by wagering that he can duplicate the miracles...
Heart Disease. The actual money loss from heart disease during the average lifetime is $21,000,000,000 for the U. S.; the loss from tuberculosis $27,000,000,000.-Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan. The strain, stress and storm of modern life is increasing the number of heart disease invalids. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, do not seem to have a bad effect on the heart, as is commonly supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity...