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...Weirton Steel Co., big National Steel subsidiary, bought 15,000 freight cars and 400 locomotives from Baltimore & Ohio R. R. to mash up for scrap. Each freight car will yield 15 tons of steel, each locomotive 90 tons. Price of scrap...
...Dyer & associates, having determined that the flea as well as the louse is a carrier of typhus, concentrated on treatments. They pulverized infected fleas, rubbed the mash into scratches which they made on the bodies of monkeys and guinea pigs. When Dr. Dyer's staff let typhus fleas bite the vaccinated animals, typhus fever developed in only half the animals. Whereupon the investigators prepared a more potent vaccine with which they will inoculate themselves. They are confident that at last they have the treatment and preventive of typhus as it appears...
...hundred Prohibition agents under Col. George Seavers of San Francisco swooping down upon Las Vegas. Twenty-five night clubs, saloons and roadhouses were raided. Lakes of liquor were seized, five breweries put out of commission. Fire threatened the business district when enthusiastic agents ignited a great stack of mash barrels. Arrested were 80 bootleggers, bartenders, speakeasy proprietors, girl entertainers. After a twelve-hour "clean-up," Las Vegas was reported to be as Dry as the surrounding sagebrush. Declared Col. Seavers...
...Hartford City. Ind.. a constable found a fox terrier reeling and lurching along the street. He followed it to the home of one Paul Garwood. whom he arrested for liquor law violation. Paul Garwood's fox terrier ate mash, was an habitual toper...
...northwestern Nebraska these worms wheat annually destroy a negligible amount of wheat- perhaps destroy a 50 acres. But already this year 1,000 acres have been leveled in that area. Therefore last week Nebraska farmers were to be seen at a strange occupation. They were spreading bran mash, poisoned with Paris green or white arsenic, throughout their wheat fields. It is a well-known cutworm remedy...