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...Household Cavalry's chagrin, acute though it was, could not compare to that of officers of the Foot Guards last week when they learned that a scarlet-coated, fur-busbied Scots Guardsman had vanished completely from his post at Buckingham Palace...
Policeman and officer searched diligently. Two hundred yards from the empty sentry box they discovered a rifle, and the huge fur headpiece of the sentinel, lying like some dead beast in the bushes. Detectives from Scotland Yard joined the search, but no trace of the scarlet-coated, white-belted sentry could be found...
...limousine for Royalty's town use is a Daimler Double-Six in deep red with scarlet hairline trim. The twelve-cylinder engine is of the "Knight," or sleeve-valve type, and the cost of the chassis alone exceeds $9,000. Until last week Their Majesties used a 1924 Daimler of exactly similar color...
Several inscribed copies of works by William Cullen Bryant, a first edition published in 1850 of Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," a presentation copy of his very rare "Liberty Tree" printed in 1841, and books by James Russell Lowell. Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes are other things of interest in the current display...
...Although scarlet fever has been recognized as a distinct disease since 1675 (by Thomas Sydenham), not until January, 1923, was a single case developed experimentally in man or lower animal. Then Dr. George Frederick Dick and his wife Dr. Gladys Henry Dick of Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found...