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...book, "The New Dentistry" Dr. L. M. S. Miner, Dean of the Harvard Dental School, describes tooth decay as the most ancient of all diseases. It has been found in the so-called Rhodesian man of 125,000 years ago. Dr. Minor points out that about 100,000,000 people in this country suffer from this disease, that $45,000,000 is spent for dental care a year, and that tooth diseases are steadily increasing. "The New Dentistry," published by the Harvard University Press is to be a popular and yet authoritative treatment of recent developments in dentistry...
...writer is E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, until recently associate editor of the Fairbanks News-Miner-a daily newspaper serving this community of 2,500 people...
...become much of a politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke one of his teeth half in two, left another hanging by a thread...
...head and chest. The crowd bar racked (jeered) him. In the fourth, Australian batsmen began to dodge Larwood's pitches and after the fifth, an Australian mob surrounded his boat train. Fellow-passengers said he was "lucky to get away with his life." Last week Larwood, a Nottinghamshire miner, turned down all publishing offers until the whole team, now in New Zealand, returns home. "Anyway," he said, "nobody knows what I know...
...Cried a miner's wife when the teller of a St. Clairsville, Ohio bank told her husband the iron potful of money he offered in payment for a house was $2,000 too much: "John, you got the wrong...