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...children can be traced to drugs administered to their mothers during the pre-natal period. The chief offender seems to be quinine, then the salicylates, then alcohol. Drugs circulating in the blood act upon the auditory nerve more often than any other nerve or special sense."-G. H. Meyers, Tulsa...
...Okmulgee, Okla., learned to dance by attending the class which smart Esther Taubee ran for Okmulgee's newly rich oilmen. Soon George Roberts married his teacher, who was about his own age. After the War they opened a school in Okmulgee, a bigger one in Tulsa...
...sell-&-switch racket are for the first time up against toothy Federal laws. But the downright crook is not so annoying as the shady dealer operating on the frontiers of legality. Last week Director of Registration Bane cracked down with a stop-order suspending sale of stock in a Tulsa concern called Wee Investors Royalty Co. Wee Investors proposed to sell its stock on a chain-letter basis. In the studied understatement of Mr. Bane's phraseology the proposition appeared to be "misleading." And last week Counsel Burns obtained injunctions against two security dealers, one of which was blandly...
Fortune's wheel spins fast in the oil industry but never so dizzily as for Joshua S. Cosden. One turn lifted him from a small-town newspaper to a $50,000,000 Tulsa oil empire. Another landed him in Manhattan society with a $2,000,000 house in Palm Beach, a stud farm in Virginia and a show place on Long Island where he entertained Edward of Wales...
...meet record made in 1926. After two days of running, jumping and throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...