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...guarded 1,689 grade crossings. All Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average...
Knowing what was about to be said in the House of Commons last week Premier James Ramsay MacDonald climbed into an airplane to hide his idealistic head in the Scottish calm of Lossiemouth. When he had safely gone two of Britain's most important statesmen rose, the first to abandon China to her fate, the second to admit that Britain is preparing...
...fresh grave of Golfer Andra Kirkaldy, longtime St. Andrews professional. Golfers Dunlap and Goodman had flowers for the last resting places of Golfer Tom Morris and his son & namesake who between them won eight British Open titles between 1861 and 1873. There were more flowers for Allan Robertson, oldtime Scottish champion who died in 1859 secure in the knowledge that on his headstone would be graven the deathless words: FAR AND TRUE. This sentimental pilgrimage accomplished, Messrs. Dunlap, Goodman and Ouimet nipped back to the Royal & Ancient Club for some more practice. On that oldest and most formidable of courses...
...program of the concert will be as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Shoot, False Love Morley Bonnie Dundee Scottish Folk song Dir, Seele des Weitalls, from Cantate for the Freemasons Mozart Choruses from the Gondoliers Sullivan College songs...
Limited in its experiments by the fact that animals are immune to yellow fever, the commission was forced to consider the theory of an eccentric Scottish medic history. who had an unsubstantiated notion that yellow fever was transmitted from human to human by mosquitoes. The commissioners tested Dr. Carlos Finlay's theory on themselves. Dr. Carroll caught yellow jack from one of the Finlay mosquitoes. Dr. Lazear died of it. Even then their experiments were scientifically incomplete. Dr. Reed called for four soldiers to volunteer as human guinea pigs. Two of them got bites from Finlay mosquitoes. The other...