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Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...
...Scarlet Fever...
...eight nations last week at the Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I. The cup, donated by the Nylandska Jakt-klubbens (Finnish yacht club) was won for the U. S. last year by the yacht Lanai. Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Holland, Germany and England (with a bright scarlet sailboat) challenged. The U. S. defender Lea and all but Sweden, Norway and Finland were eliminated in preliminaries. Each then won two races; Sweden drifted through an almost airless afternoon to win a third...
...Paris, the scarlet pompons of the Garde Republicaine blazed around the Gare des Invalides. Bands played "The Star-Spangled Banner." General Pershing and Commander Savage proceeded at once to the Arc de Triomphe and the grave of the Soldat Inconnu. They had brought half a bronze wreath, the other half of which lay on the Unknown Soldier's grave in Arlington, Va. France's highest officialdom joined the Americans in two minutes of silence and a rigid salute, followed by Taps on a sad bugle through the drizzle...
When, after that war, he followed the career of his father, Dr. John Haven Emerson, he observed that children did grow taller in the springtime. They also took sick with colds, fevers, measles, scarlatina, scarlet fever, chicken-pox?in the springtime...