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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manifested its deadly potentialities. Carbon dioxide, condensed to dry ice, was used to refrigerate a cargo of cherries shipped from Buffalo to Brooklyn. Not reflecting that dry ice evaporates to carbon dioxide gas again, that carbon dioxide in an unventilated room displaces oxygen without which no man can live, and that it is therefore a modern occupational hazard, two Brooklyn stevedores descended into the ship's hold to unload cases of cherries. They had time only to cry alarm before they dropped unconscious. Three other stevedores who went to the rescue also suffocated. All five were dead before they...
They preferred to remain joined because their affliction was their livelihood. Most Siamese twins have the same idea. When Surgeon Hippolyte Marcus Wertheim of York Hospital cut (without anesthesia) dead Lucio away from live Simplicio, he was performing the first operation of its kind on adult Siamese twins...
...birthday. Hale & happy for such tributes as having a whole issue of the Mormon Improvement Era devoted to his life and works, President Heber Jedediah Grant of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism's 118th "Stake" or bishopric. It was the second such district set up east of the Mississippi...
From Chengtu last fortnight Hashed a message tantalizing to every zoologist in the world. It said that Mrs. Harkness had just arrived from the Tibetan border with a live panda. If it was only a panda, her catch was of no consequence. The panda -a small, bushy-tailed, raccoon-like creature-had often been captured before...
...awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves from household to household, picturing each in a few sentences, starting up a hundred promising stories that he does not follow. Nothing holds the characters together except that they all live in Tuttle, so that whenever readers grow interested in one individual he fades into the crowd, leaving an impression as confusing as glimpses of a rush hour as seen by a stranger in town...