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...time of the trial arising from the Phoenix Park case. Best bit part: Brandon Tynan, Dublin-born actor, who got 27 curtain calls the night in 1902 when he appeared in New York in the title role of a play about Irish Patriot Robert Emmet, as J. F. X. O'Brien, oldest member of the Home Rule Party...
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...southern Oregon timber worker, finally took her to a local doctor. He suggested that the baby go to the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital which the State of Oregon maintains in Portland as an adjunct of the University of Oregon medical school. There the blonde little caricature of motherhood underwent an X-ray examination a fortnight ago. This revealed to the dumbfounded staff of the hospital that Barbara Stobie was indeed carrying a child. Plainly visible were part of its bony skull, spine, arms, legs...
...baby with an enlarged thymus is usually fat and flabby. Because the thymus presses upon the windpipe, gullet, large blood vessels and nerves, a thymic baby when excited will develop harsh breathing, turn blue, hold his breath, go into convulsions. Immediate remedy is an oxygen tent. X-rays of the infant's chest will reveal any enlargement of the thymus. X-ray irradiations will reduce an enlarged thymus. The complexions of thymic children after irradiation never seem to grow old, always remain peaches & cream...
More dire than Detroit's were two other school scandal notes of the week. In Brooklyn, District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan began crusading against "racketeers" who, he charged, had induced students in six Brooklyn high schools to sell their companions 600 contraceptive devices. At Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College (Stillwater), the Student Council received a petition with 602 signatures demanding that all entering students be given the Wassermann blood test for syphilis...