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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion as it is our knowledge that it is rarely necessary to call the sailor at all-just the sounding of "mess gear" or "pay call" on the bugle being sufficient. At any rate-we never call each other "bluejackets...
...Canadian broom factory. After a few years of glutting themselves, they practically wiped out Canada's corn crop. Then a hearty band of pilgrims was tossed about, until they set foot in the U. S. Instinctively, they moved westward toward the promised land. The moth flies at the rate of 150 miles a season; the worm nibbles the corn, does the damage. During the last two years, they have been reported in Indiana and many another state but not until last week did they officially cross the border into Illinois. They whetted their man- dibles at the thought...
Last fortnight the Bureau of the Census published its analysis of the 1,219,019 U. S. deaths that occurred during 1925. For every 100,000 of the population the death rate remained the same, 1,180, as in 1924. But according to diseases, it varied thus...
...said that "La du Barry, Maitresse de Roi" was written for Madame Cecile Sorel by Messieurs Aderer and Ephraim. It seems scarcely credible. At any rate it is the play chosen to show her off to greatest advantage before American audiences. She has elected to play it seven times this week, and "Camille" only twice. Whatever the vehicle in which she apears, Boston is favored of the god in having her at the Opera House for even so short a time, but it seems a maestros pity that some play of less pictorial and elementary nature might not have been...
Drinkers' Sons. Ten generations of rats were daily intoxicated with alcohol fumes. The eleventh generation was put in a cage with descendants of nonalcoholic rats. The two strains got drunk at the same rate. Conclusion: a drinker's sons cannot inherit from him a steady head for drinking; acquired characteristics are not demonstrably inheritable.?Frank Blair Hanson and Florence. Hays, Washington University, St. Louis...