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This is by no means the first time that Dr. Straton has captured the limelight by attacking VICE. When a pastor in Norfolk, Va., in 1917, he said that Norfolk was full of bawdy houses and blamed local officials. He wrote a book ($1 per copy) entitled Scarlet Sins of Norfolk, was sued for libel, was hailed before a Grand Jury where he confessed that it was all based on what "somebody" had told him. The commotion began when Dr. Straton tried in vain to get a pardon for a Baptist friend who had been convicted of boot-leggery...
...cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly in the Tammany till. . . . "I am throwing no mud at Governor Smith. He is honest, he is brave, he is intelligent. I don't question his motives. To get where he is with the crowd...
...Votes (1907, 1910, 1911, 1915) to legalize Sunday baseball. A vote (1909) against Sunday theatre performances. A vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms...
Septic sore throat is caused by Streptococcus hemolyticus, a tiny germ closely resembling and related to the streptococci of scarlet fever. It is generally distributed in milk, but is a disease of man, not of cows. The milk may become infected by human hands, or, what seems more logical in view of the widespread character of the epidemics,* the udder of the cow becomes infected from human hands, releasing a stream of contagion at every milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout...
...rainy or the sun is shining, the King and all smart Britishers must go to Ascot every year. From Windsor with his good wife and the Prince of Wales he drove through the rain in a landau drawn by six perfectly matched greys mounted by postillions in scarlet coats frogged with gold. He saw Lord Derby's Toboggan, a nice bay filly, win the $25,000 Coronation Stakes while his own horse, Scuttle, came in third; he saw Brown Jack win the Royal Ascot Stakes by three lengths from Bonny Boy II, and he saw Maid of Perth...