Word: tacoma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their growth at a primitive, atavistic stage. Such primitive cells may lie dormant while the blood is able to counteract the virus. But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer. (Propounded two years ago by Dr. Emilian O. Houda, Bohemian physician of Tacoma, Wash. Dr. Houda, in the current issue of Cancer indignantly asserts that Gye and Barnard of London, who have recently set forth a somewhat similar theory, have not given him due recognition for his prior work...
...Liggett Co. began a campaign of extension on the Pacific Coast. In Los Angeles it bought four stores of the Kress Drug Co.; in Oakland five of the Bowman Co.; in Glendale another thriving shop. In Seattle it began to negotiate for the ten Bartel drug stores; in Tacoma for three stores of the French Drug Co. Last week it completed the largest of its late amalgamations by purchasing (for $500,000 cash) eight stores of the Stout-Lyons Drug Co. Portland, Ore., will be the headquarters of a further string of stores, which the Company expects to acquire...
Died. Jacob H. Vanderbilt, 70, last of the second generation of financially prominent Vanderbilts; in Tacoma, Wash., of heart disease...
...Tacoma News-Tribune...
...State of Washington watches the action of Congress with anxiety, divided against itself. If Tacoma loses, she has still the option of following the example of the ancient prophet: she may change her own name to Rainier...