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Within three years he had organized, coached, and captained Alma's first football team, which went through the season undefeated and took the scalp of Michigan Aggies (now Michigan State) 18 to 16. He had been active in Y. M. C. A. work, sprinted on the track squad, joined Zeta Sigma (local), and marched with the Cadets. To top it all, he had gone off in his senior year with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders to fight the Spaniards. Now, in 1898, he was about to get married to a campus sweetheart and start working on a newspaper...
...claims for $70,000 and incorporated them in San Francisco in 1877. In the preceding summer the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians had been driven westward out of the Black Hills by U. S. troops sent to avenge the Custer massacre, and for the first time a miner's scalp was safe in Gold Run Canyon, site of the first prospecting. The rich lodes at Homestake soon grew richer as the shafts drove deeper. Astutely managed after George Hearst's death by his shrewd widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward...
...Wiry, energetic men are apt to be shaggy. Dumpy, cunning men are apt to be bald. Food or drugs may restore hair to a glandular baldhead if the follicles are nourished before they die. Repeated scares or fits of anger may cause baldness by causing the capillaries of the scalp to constrict. Such hypersensitive constriction prevents blood from getting to the hair follicles and nourishing them. Rages and scares also affect the growth of hair by exhausting the adrenals. High fevers have a like effect...
...National Beauty Congress in Seattle last week one Norman Hillier of Manhattan blatantly advised women who are getting bald to stand on their heads. Said he: "Standing on the head brings blood to the scalp...
...overcome baldness was advanced last week from a more authentic source when Dr. André Alexis Cueto of Cincinnati offered the medical profession a machine to grow hair on heads where hair follicles are not altogether dead. The machine consists of a hood which fits over the scalp. By means of an air pump Dr. Cueto creates an alternate vacuum and pressure upon the scalp. This exercises the capillaries of the scalp, brings revivifying blood to the follicles. On 150 heads which were as bald as the sole of his foot Dr. Cueto last week asserted he had produced satisfactory...