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Three months ago the Bureau of Public Health of the Department of the Interior sent out an appeal from Washington for bedbugs, to be used for experimental purposes, and offered a remuneration of five cents per specimen to any citizen who should send one or more of the insects to the department's laboratories...
...novel is condemned for scientific leanings rather than for its ability to corrupt the morals of its readers, its is only because the movies and the flourishing yellow journalism of today have so unmistakably gained a superiority in the latter field. The good old era has passed when a specimen of the depraved younger generation was always painted with a box of chocolates and an exciting French novel. At any rate, it is quite evident that the present younger generation is far too impatient to seek in the endless pages of a novel those forbidden joys which Thomas Jefferson...
...Rowland Kenney ?Seltzer ($2.00). Despite its troubadour-like title, this is no pretty-gypsy tale of wanderings amid the birds and flowers?never think it. It moves with elaborate unconcern through the adventures of British navyies, dockyard workers, murderers, bums, nippers and bad beer. It is a forthright specimen of sturdy naturalism?if by that is meant that when differences arise with one's fellows the obvious thing to do is to tap the offender over the head with an iron stave instead of becoming involved in pages of metaphysical argument. There is such a breezy directness about these...
Versification by "Sylvanus," headquarters at Chicago, has been recently greeted by the opponents of modernists. Specimen...
...gift to the city of Cambridge. The tree is now growing at Charlestown Heights where it was planted in 1905 from the Arnold Arboretum and presented to the Boston Park Department. During its years of growth, the tree has received the best of care and is a remarkably sturdy specimen. Washington's birthday has been set for the date of transplanting...