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...condition of the crop in various states varied widely, as it usually does. Arizona made the best showing at 92%, with California a close second at 90. Tennessee cotton was poorest...
...cities in the U. S. It was found that the water with the highest iodin content had 18,470 times as much iodin as that with the lowest content. The richest supply was that at Mexia, Tex., with 18,470, and next was Stanford, Calif., with 10,580. The poorest were at Duluth, Spokane, Rockford. This seems to answer the argument against increasing artificially the amount of iodin in the city water since people frequently go from an iodin-poor district to an iodin-rich one and never notice any change in the water or any effects on themselves...
...records of the drinking habits of more than 150,000 normal persons throughout their lives, he reached the conclusion that "moderate steady drinkers have a better expectation of life at all ages from 30 to the end of the life span than do total abstainers." Heavy drinkers have the poorest expectation of life at all ages after 30, except that heavy-drinking males from 65 on are about on a par with the total abstainers. The figures are calculated in the same manner as insurance life tables, and according to Dr. Pearl, the material is "the most critically adequate...
...National Association of Chiropodists met in New York with a thousand foot-doctors in attendance and adopted a committee report in which New York City is credited with having the smallest and poorest-shaped feet in the country. The average size of women's shoes worn in New York is 4½; of men's, 6. High heels for women are usual. Other cities show much better records. In Philadelphia and St. Paul, for instance, the averages are, for women, 5½ to 6; for men, 8 to 9. " The trouble with New Yorkers is that they...
...that bears me up here is the constant growth of the monarchist movement in Germany. I cannot understand why my abdication was taken as a matter of course by the German people when I had done such immeasurable good for the country, always seeing to it that even the poorest had a sufficient income. I don't know how I can face my grandfather. . . . My hands were clean in the great struggle which was caused by Russia. Our May offensive was the greatest success of the war and will shine forever in history...