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...Daily Mail by that newspaper's promise, to the heirs of any person killed in a railroad wreck to pay them ?1,000 if the victim had a copy of the Mail in his possession. Lately Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner offered its readers smaller prizes under milder terms. Adult males detected by a roving reporter in acts of courtesy are awarded $2; boys, $1. If the man or boy is carrying a Herex when the Courtesy Reporter surprises him, the prize is doubled...
...asphalted 350.000 yards of Moscow streets. Such statistics are prime news in Russia. Strictly speaking the "Mayor" is President of the Moscow Soviet and its Presidium is the civic government. Not a burly, two-fisted "Old Bolshevik," Electrical Engineer Bulganin is small, studious, neatly dressed, a "Modern Bolshevik" much milder in type than Dictator Josef Stalin who used to blow up safes and Tsarist officials "in the name of the Revolution...
...seats. The Socialists and other Left Wing Parties will muster 241 seats not counting the all-important group of 89 Communists. European observers saw no reason for Chancellor von Papen to resign his Government, felt that the unexpected strength of the Socialist and Communist vote would bind him to milder utterances and a more moderate foreign policy unless he and Minister of Defense von Schleicher attempt to rule by open dictatorship...
...Passionate President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia whooped for war with Paraguay, declared martial law, aroused Bolivian patriots to pledge more than $200,000 for the conduct of the war, said in one of his milder moments, "It seems to me that the moment is not yet opportune for bringing the Bolivian people to serene and favorable reflection looking towards a pacific understanding with Paraguay...
...louse carries a violent, epidemic form of the disease common in Europe. In the U. S. typhus is milder and endemic, travels in the rat flea...