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...mention of the epidemic was abetted by the daily press of the country at large and by the news-gathering agencies. The right of the people to a free press, of which we have heard so much of late, was denied, and the seeds of a deadly disease were sown among innocent victims of a cowardly and conniving press and commercial greed. . . . C. E. LOWRY Editor The Gibson Courier Gibson City, Ill. According to Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, travelers need have no more fear of visiting Chicago than any other large city. The occurrence...
...Headline-of-the-week from the New York Evening, Post: LUST SEED SOWN, COPELAND'S VIEW...
...Lady Evelyn and 36 farmers with "unlawful assembly." In Castle Hedingham Court, she protested that she had been trying to stop the riot. With the whole countryside smoldering indignation, the court adjourned the case until after harvest time, enjoined the farmers to go out and reap what they have sown-after which attempts will undoubtedly begin to collect a tithe of the harvest. In all about ?3,000,000 ($14,580,000 at par) are collected annually in tithes, two-thirds by that hoary institution called Queen Anne's Bounty. Its Chairman George Middleton is a onetime Laborite...
General Hure could have ended the "war" at once by sending a few bombing planes over the valleys, turning them into poison gas traps. But he knew that his enemy was brave and honorable, that such a massacre would have sown rebellion in Morocco for decades to come. He chose the harder job of forcing a straightforward surrender. In their strongholds, the leaders kept the Berbers at a pitch by preaching "Death before surrender." The French began a tedious, hazardous prowling up the peaks, picking off snipers. In one desperate skirmish they killed the Berber Generalissimo Sidi Ben Ahmed. Some...
Because it is what horticulturists call a "sport" there is only one way that Baron Lambeau's Cattleya Gigas Alba can be propagated. Seeds are useless; its seed if sown would revert to the colors of its comparatively worthless parents. But every year or so, depending on the Alba's strength, an expert with a sharp knife can cut off three or four of the pseudo-bulbs that form round its base, make a new plant from them. Baron Lambeau performed this operation several times, keeps his plants in his private hothouses. Not long...