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Swollen Brains & Epilepsy. The behavior of a high-frequency electric current shot through the head of an epileptic differs from the same current shot through a normal head. The difference is due to the swelling of the epileptic's brain, decided Drs. Ernst Spiegel & Mono, Spiegel-Adolf (wife) of Philadelphia. They found that they could shrink such brains and decrease convulsions by feeding epileptics meats and other acid-producing foods. Alkali producing foods, they found, excite epileptics, increase their tendency to fits...
...pilots from Harvard are Cummings, John H. Bartol '36, Linn Bollinger 1GB, flying Fleets; Ignatius Sargent '37, flying a Mono Coupe; Fox, flying a Walker Cabin; and Nelson, with a Fairchild...
...four more when the Southern Pacific liner El Oceano arrived. Of the Havana's 51 passengers, all were saved but one man died of apoplexy in a lifeboat. Fifty of the Havana's crew of 126, including the purser, were survivors of the Ward Line's Mono Castle...
This piece of rhetoric was not a quotation from an inquiry into the burning of the Mono Castle or any other maritime disaster but a high-flown attack on William Walker McLellan, an aging Scot from Glasgow. About a year after the Titanic sank, Mr. McLellan bought a small chain of stores in North Carolina...
...prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...