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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time last year about 2,000 children had it. But the difference does not alarm epidemiologists of the U. S. Public Health Service, who call the current occurrence a "mild epidemic," because its cases are diffused over the entire Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, reaching into Canada. Nonetheless, local health officers are worried. Communities are postponing school terms, forbidding children to attend theatres, go to parks, go in swimming pools...
...Foundation declined 920 applications for aid. ("The Foundation does not make gifts or loans to individuals, or finance patents or altruistic movements involving private profit, or contribute to the building and maintenance of churches, hospitals, or other local institutions, or support campaigns to influence public opinion on any social or political questions...
This extraordinary hearsay testimony was but one tidbit enlivening a civil suit which opened in San Francisco fortnight ago and which, because for their own reasons local newspapers did not care to mention it, was just coming to Californian ears last week. What interested Californians most was the identity of the suit's chief defendant...
...backgammon, dominoes, his even deeper desire to win at all of them. They have long since become accustomed to his practical jokes, are not surprised when he hands out explosive cigars, shaves during business conferences, becomes irrepressibly boisterous. And shrewd Mr. Fleishhacker now finds his name firmly imbedded in local projects. A supporter and campaign contributor of the late James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. who became Governor of California, he was made head of San Francisco's Park Commission, had named after him Fleishhacker Zoo, Fleishhacker Park, Fleishhacker Swimming Pool...
From the point of view of the mushroom business, Philadelphia (of which West Chester is a suburb) has three advantages-temperate climate, propinquity to a sophisticated market and to a big supply of horse manure. Just after the Revolution, when Philadelphia was the U. S. capital, local high livers discovered the mushrooms that had grown wild locally for years. Farmers thereupon tried to grow them artificially. Sometimes they got good crops, sometimes none. Then in 1904 Edward Henry Jacob, an accountant in a cream separator plant, began experimenting with mushrooms...