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Vegetables and fruits formerly were not a common source of illness. Over-ripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that has been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation...
Phillips Brooks House is the only official undergraduate body that spreads this much-needed goodwill among those living outside the cloistered walls of Cambridge, and they render a very valuable service to the University through their wide-spread and numerous activities. The "Student Faculty" deserves the unanimous support of the whole college...
Continuation of these talks through out April was arranged by the Guardian as a result of the wide-spread enthusiasm accorded the half-hour symposium on a new American business boom which was presented last Monday night. For the new April issue, it was announced that Adolph A. Berle, Jr., Chamberlain of the City of New York, had been induced to write an article on the same subject
This is the second nationwide exhibit in a program inaugurated two months ago by the New York organization for the Wide-spread distribution of fine works by living American painters. The group plans to select 48 pictures a year for large scale reproduction by the "collotype" process, endorsed by experts as the best now known. Royalties from the sale of the prints are paid to the artists themselves regardless of the ownership of the original, providing the painters with an entirely new source of income...
Vegetables and fruits formerly word not a common source of illness. Overripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that have been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation. Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...