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...Press was startled and shocked last week when one Hyman Stark, 20, died at the hands of the Nassau County police, guardians of New York's most swank and civilized area. Arrested for beating and robbing a county detective's mother, Stark was put in the "goldfish bowl" (a bright bare room for inquisitions) at Mineola headquarters, given the third-degree for eight hours. An autopsy showed Stark died from a fractured larynx, complicated by a cerebral hemorrhage. His body was horribly marked. Explained the District Attorney: "Some overenthusiastic police officer broke that man's Adam...
Problem. As no one knows better than Lord Bessborough, the Mother Country is a comparatively small, densely populated manufacturing area. The dominions, on the contrary, are comparatively large areas, rural and sparsely populated but with "infant industries" of which they are proud, hopeful. Since the Mother Country is suffering from unemployment (many of her plants being closed), and since the dominions buy a great deal of manufactured goods from outside the Empire, cannot an imperial agreement be made for the dominions to buy proportionally more manufactures from the Mother Country and for her to buy proportionally more raw materials...
Circusman John Ringling had to admit newsmen to his suite at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel, hard by the area which was destroyed by fire last week, before they were convinced that he had not had his legs amputated. Angrily he explained that an infected blister on his right instep had been treated, that was all. Now he and his wife had come for a fortnight's rest as guests of his good friend Samuel W. Gumpertz, president of Coney Island's Board of Trade. As for the amputation story, which had already gotten into print...
...weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
...more persons are exposed to infantile paralysis than ever contract the disease. The germ is present in the noses and throats of many healthy individuals. During epidemics most adults and children in the stricken areas pick up germs, acquire immunity without developing symptoms of the disease. This immunity lasts a lifetime. Each epidemic immunizes thousands of children. Not until these thousands are grown and other thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last...