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Promptly France announced that she too would hasten to begin schedules, at first with monthly crossings between Senegal, West Africa and Natal, Brazil...
Forlornly braying, the mule lives a life of toil, barren of love. For like many hybrids, the mule is sterile. So skeptical of the few reported cases of mule fertility is Encyclopaedia Britannica that it refuses to consider them authentic. But last week from Natal, South Africa, issued a report that appeared to have the stamp of authority. In a letter to Nature (British weekly), Ernest Warren of the Natal Museum reported the following "indisputable example of fertility in the mule...
...November 24, 1924, a common mule on the farm of W. J. Kilian of Weenen, Natal, gave birth to a male foal. . . . The mule in question ... is a typical mule in every way and has a considerable preponderance of the characteristics of the ass. . . . The foal grew rapidly and is now a reliable riding horse, practically indistinguishable from a pure horse...
From Paris, where he discussed interconnections with French Aeropostale for its mail delivered by boat across the South Atlantic from French Africa to Natal, Brazil on the Pan American System, unresting President Trippe flew last week to London to ponder a mail route (with Imperial Airways; from the U. S. to Europe via Bermuda and the Azores...
Normal child births: $50, including one pre-natal examination; instrumental deliveries, including consultations, not more than $150 on any one case...