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...Canada. In urban industrial populations the rate for the first three months in 1924 was 9.2 per 1,000 aged one year and over, compared with 9.7 per 1,000 for the same period in 1921 (previously the lowest rate). Marked improvement in mortality was found in diphtheria, scarlet fever, influenza, tuberculosis, diabetes, alcoholism. Concerning a 23% drop in the mortality rate from diabetes, a bulletin of the Company said: "Each additional month helps to confirm the impression that the growing use of insulin is an important factor in bringing this about...
Another hostile critic was the Daily Herald, official organ of the Independent Labor Party. The newspaper referred to the "ostentatious" court gown of Mrs. Philip Snowden and "the scarlet coat and blue trousers trimmed with silver braid" of "Jamie" Brown, King George's proxy at Holyrood, spoke of its "impatient contempt for such misuse of life...
...myrmidons flees and takes shelter on the noble bosom of a rival rich man. When they return from their honeymoon, the villain hounds her at a dinner so that she misses a good meal. After the act has run long enough the husband explains that he has known her scarlet past all along, but has kept silence in order to learn the identity of the man who equipped her with it. Then he spits on his hands. The denouement might be illustrated by a diagram showing the stairs which the villain struck as he tumbled down them and achieved...
...books of importance have been printed by the University Press very recently. On April 14, "The Siege of Boston," comprising the diary of Lieutenant John Barker during the siege of Boston from November 1774 to May 1776, was published. The book is bound in black cloth with scarlet paper sides, illustrated with twelve reproductions from very rare originals in private and semi-public collections, and enclosed in a slide-case. The edition is definitely limited to 500 copies. So great has been the local demand that less than 200 copies are now available...
Ballooning-a thrilling sport! (P. 28.) George F. Baker-"as usual, .more shares than anyone else." (P. 23.) George V in a setting of scarlet, gold and steel...