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...disease indirectly from an old man, one Frederick Moersch, carpenter, who had been helping his widowed daughter run a Village ice cream parlor. He is a typhoid carrier, immune to the disease himself, infectious to others. The New York City health department captured him and segregated him on a pest island in East River. He may be kept there for life because he broke his promise to the health department never to work around food which other people might eat. A woman, "Typhoid" Mary Mallon, is also there for life, for like cause...
...film which came out of all of this is prettily produced, but fails to surprise. It is the old tale of white men's hellish conduct among South Sea natives. Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue), a good man gone to drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they...
...This year the Famine Dragon is dry. He came last summer in the likeness of a burning drought and accompanied by a pest of locusts. Result: crop yields have fallen to 25% of normal in 65 of the 407 districts of Shantung. A similar dry famine in North China brought Death to 500,000 in 1920-21, and rendered 20,000,000 destitute...
...cowboys, rancheros and Indians, for service in the Spanish-American War. Dr. Wood's talk last week was in advocacy of a $2,000,000 fund now being quietly collected in the U. S. to alleviate, study and prevent leprosy. Chief experiments will be conducted on the Philippines pest island of Culion, where Dr. H. Windsor Wade has charge of 5,200 lepers. At one time Culion was called the Island of Despair. Now it is the Island of Hope, for Dr. Wood has been able, by a rigid regime of treatment, to discharge approximately 1,000 onetime lepers...
...sucking and licking off dainty fingers the thick, pasty sweets of Hungary. Old men, taking their mud baths at the St. Gellert, quaked in merriment over the trial of Sari Fedak, quaked until reproving attendants had to plaster more hot mud upon their midriffs. Everywhere, from the promenades of Pest to the baths of Buda, every-one knew that Sari Fedak was being sued for applying the expression "That low down little Budapest cat!" to a rival actress, Vilma Banky, at present flickering in a U. S. cinema-drama, A Night of Love...