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Siamese Twins. No one would suppose Terry Turner, a fat and smirking Broadwayfarer, to be an exploiter of monstrosity. Yet such is part of his profession. The Hilton twins, Siamese ones, who live in Texas, owe their fame and vaudeville contracts especially to him. Last fortnight this press-agent for Loew's Vaudeville Circuit turned his talents on another female pair, the Gibb twins, Mary and Margaret, joined since birth and recent members of a Coney Island freak museum. Very discreetly, he let it be known in newspaper offices that one of them was in love and that they...
...forgiven-you need not take my name from your subscription list (it is there and I want it to stay there). I realize that TIME has been imposed upon for propaganda purposes. But . . . TIME you do owe an apology to optometry...
...manufactures $9,372,379,000 to $62,700,000,000; farm products $2,460,000,000 to $19,700,000,000; exports $850,000,000 to $4,870,000,000; bank deposits $4,060,000,000 to $48,880,000,000. In 1890 the U. S. owed foreign investors and institutions $600,000,000; now they owe...
...long been a familiar household god in the kitchen, a mild antiseptic (boric acid) in the medicine chest. It keeps glass from cracking under the strain of change in temperature; is used therefore in making lamp chimneys, incandescent lamps, baking dishes. Enamel ware, plumbing fixtures, chemical apparatus owe much of their resistance to borax. But wherever borax has gone in, the price has gone up. Since the discovery of kernite, borax has fallen steadily in price as shown last week by the Industrial Bulletin (monthly) of Arthur D. Little, Inc.; expectations are that this decrease will continue, not only because...
...illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional and four-color exactitude...