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...available from Chinese sections of Shanghai but in the French Concession alone there were 450 cases, with cholera-afflicted foreigners observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers and lower temperatures can avert a major epidemic." Latest news was that 50 people per day were dying of cholera in Shanghai...
...meeting was attended by 30 new men, ten old members of the club as well as two Wellesley students. After an election of treasurer which George C. Edwards 1G was selected, Monroe M. Sweetland, College Director of the League for Industrial Democracy gave a talk on "The Function of a Liberal Club in College...
Actually, Mr. Coburn is anything but. He is "Samuel Sweetland," a slightly more than middle aged farmer with a married past, and hopes for a matrimonial future. The plot of the play is concerned with his scaly-eyed efforts to obtain a replacement for his dead wife. Mrs. Coburn plays opposite him as Araminta Dench, his super-efficient housekeeper...
...Farmer's Wife. Eden Phillpotts takes you casually by the hand and bids you meet Samuel Sweetland of Devonshire. He bids you meet Mr. Sweetland in that interesting period of later life when he is seeking a wife. He introduces you in passing to the several single ladies of Mr. Sweetland's acquaintance who he believes will promote his placid happiness. For reasons that seem neither good nor sufficient, these ladies one by one give Mr. Sweetland what is vulgarly described as "the air." In the end, Mr. Sweetland's comely housekeeper gives him her promise true...
...Coburn are chiefly concerned as Mr. and the prospective Mrs. Sweetland. They play with an unerring touch for quiet comedy. Summoned to their assistance is a large assembly of deft and balanced capabilities...