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...record of Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio is as follows: Born: On a farm in Allen County, Ohio, Dec. 11, 1861. Start-in-life: Country school teacher. Career: Son of impoverished log cabin dwellers, he was four when his father died. At twelve he was sent to live with an elder sister, did farm work summers, got a little schooling winters. Aged 19, he passed an examination, received a license to teach. With his earnings he sent himself to Ohio Northern University at Ada. On the day in 1889 that Ohio Northern graduated him, aged 27, that Methodist stronghold...
...which may exercise deleterious effects may be cited . . . the temperature . . . the humidity . . . exposure to actinic rays . . . absence of normal sources of companionship and amusement, resulting in mental depressions . . . lack of exercise and excessive indulgence in food, alcohol and venery . . . association with natives. ... In my opinion nobody-no white man-lives in the tropics over a long period who does not deteriorate in practically every way." "Children," said General Patterson, "up to a certain age can do fairly well in the tropics, provided you can get a good supply of milk for them, which is always hard to do. But after...
...founder's death in 1927. His widow and "Queen" took command of the ''Israelite House of David as Reorganized by Mary Purnell." A California judge named Harry T. Dewhirst won the right to the name House of David. With 300 followers apiece, the two cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms...
...action storing chemically the power from the sun in a more efficient way than can be done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal. ¶ Facsimile radio, that is, the sending of pictures and printed matter...
...devoted young wife of Hans Pinneberg, played by Douglass Montgomery. Mr. Montgomery suffers considerably by comparison, the best that can be said of him is that he is very earnest and sincere. The plot has to do with the vicissitudes in the life of this unassuming couple trying to live a peaceful existence. Lammchen is to have a baby, Hans loses his jobs through no particular fault of his, but his flighty mother-in-law is indifferent to helping them. Finally they are taken in as boarders by a splendid old furniture-maker, and the baby is born. He restores...