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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dr. Paul A. Lewis, 50, of Princeton, N. J., bacteriologist with the Rockefeller Institute; in Bahia, Brazil; of yellow fever, while trying to find a more effective preventative...
Died. William Symes Andrews, SI, of Schenectady, N. Y.; electrical engineer, longtime chief assistant of Thomas Alva Edison, oldest employe of General Electric Co.; in Schenectady...
...ascertainable facts might have seemed thin in any place but Central Europe. But that part of the world is as full of spies as of flies. Only last fortnight Prague's Národni Politika, commenting absently on the spy situation, observed with interest that Russian spies seemed to be unusually numerous this year...
...Vincent Pecha, Czech railway ticket-agent, was making a comfortable meal of fried veal and beer in the station restaurant at Hidas Németi, Hungarian frontier town...
...without humor, Editor Barzini described a little-suspected shortcoming of the tabloid-size newspaper. When the Corriere first started, he related, a laborer wrote in from Trenton, N. J., and said: "Your newspaper is beautiful and interesting and I like it very much, but it is too small to wrap my lunch in." Added Editor Barzini: "There was torn from our eyes the veil of the mysteries of certain newspaper circulations...