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Last year General Electric was operating a huge electric furnace along the swampy, mosquito-infested Saugus River at Lynn, Mass., where Dr. Thomson has his personal laboratories. None of the furnace attendants was bitten. Yet A. L. Ellis of the works noticed myriads of what seemed to be mosquitoes dead and resting on the furnace top and in its crevices. He told Dr. Thomson, who collected some of the corpses and found as he expected that they were all males. For he had a shrewd idea...
...present were two still able women doctors-Ellen Alfleda Wallace, 77, and Mary Shepherd Danforth, 80, both of Manchester, N. H. Nodding to them venerably were Drs. George W. Gale, 93, of Saugus, Mass., Chester M. Ferrin, 93, of Burlington, Vt., and oldest of them all, probably the oldest medical graduate in the U. S., almost certainly the oldest practitioner, certainly the Medical Centre's cornerstone layer, Merritt Henry Eddy, 97, of Middlebury, Vt. The noise of the police motorcycles and sirens which accompanied the old doctors through Boston, the playing of the Navy Band before the Massachusetts State...
...Vagabond has been deeply intrigued and highly amused recently at the vast number of parodies which have flooded the literary market. This series of Saugus cheers which have greeted the publication of many of the more serious works during the last few months seem to be indicative of a subconscious feeling in literary circles that the American reading public is in danger of developing a psychopathic personality on a large scale. To prevent any such general tendency towards self-consciousness and introspection, the Benchleys and the Stewarts have taken it upon themselves to grasp the bull by the horns...
...Pawnee. Okla., two officers arrested Tom Vernon, alias Tom Brennan. Deputy Sheriff Thomas J. Higgins of Los Angeles, who had stalked Vernon across six states, charged him with wrecking and robbing a Southern Pacific train near Saugus, Cal. last month. Sheriff Gus Romsa of Cheyenne was on hand to charge him also with last week's Wyoming...
...annually to Freshmen of the University living within a limited radius of the Boston State House. The awards also stipulate that the recipients be graduates of public schools within the limited radius. The holders of the scholarships for the academic year 1929-30 are R. J. Coss '33 of Saugus High School; Benjamin Lelyveld '33 of Rockland High School; C. U. Stevens '33 of Melrose High School; and D. M. Sullivan '33 of the Boston Latin School...