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...original territory was comprised of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Last year the area was extended to include Iowa and Kentucky while this year it will be increased to ten states with the addition of Tennessee and Missouri...
...last week's meeting of sanitarians Dr. Alfred Potter, Brooklyn syphilologist, estimated 10,000,000 U. S. cases of syphilis, active and arrested. Cried he: "In the area of the U. S. in which syphilis has been reportable since 1920 there have been reported 35,000 more cases of syphilis than of scarlet fever, 79,000 more cases than all forms of tuberculosis, 500,000 more cases than of diphtheria and five times as many cases as typhoid fever...
...Esty tea campaign is a huge experiment to be conducted in a concentrated area bounded on the east by Buffalo, on the north by Detroit, on the west by middle Illinois and on the south by northern Ohio. Within those limits live 10,000,000 citizens who will be bombarded with billboards, window displays, radio programs and periodical advertisements in an effort to make them drink more tea. Next week the concentration point moves to Detroit, a fortnight later to Buffalo. With the closing weeks of June, the fact that tea is COOLING will be plugged. Year's appropriation...
...Among the nations of the great Western Hemisphere the policy of the good neighbor has happily prevailed. . . . There is neither war, nor rumor of war, nor desire for war. The inhabitants of this vast area, 250,000,000 strong . . . believe in, and propose to follow, the policy of the good neighbor. And they wish with all their heart that the rest of the world might do likewise. "The rest of the world-Ah! There's the rub. . . . The people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening...
...first projects undertaken by the Geographical Institute's aerial photography group was the mapping of the Newburyport, Mass. area for the peabody Museum's survey of the inhabitants of that region. An army of workers was employed to interiew each Newburyport resident, noting his personal history and gathering anthropological data on his skull's dimensions...