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...Research Laboratory of Physics was built and endowed with a donation of $400,000 by the General Education Board and $650,000 by other friends of the University. The building has a floor area of about 45,000 square feet, consisting of five stories including the basement. It has about 100 rooms, and fills a space between the Cruft Laboratory and the Jefferson Laboratory, so as to join the three buildings into a unit structure. The east end of the Jefferson Laboratory is to be remodelled during the coming summer in order to make the physical union of the three...
Oldtimers said the gnats would soon move down the river and die. Apprehensive, farmers south of the afflicted area hastened protective preparations...
...fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
...northwestern Nebraska these worms wheat annually destroy a negligible amount of wheat- perhaps destroy a 50 acres. But already this year 1,000 acres have been leveled in that area. Therefore last week Nebraska farmers were to be seen at a strange occupation. They were spreading bran mash, poisoned with Paris green or white arsenic, throughout their wheat fields. It is a well-known cutworm remedy...
...Tennessee, Kentucky, North & South Carolina, instead of remitting their receipts to Chicago headquarters will deposit them in designated banks in New Orleans, Savannah, Memphis, Mobile, Charleston, S. C. With these deposits the banks will buy cotton under 12? per Ib. for December delivery. Wrigley gum sales in this southern area run about $12,000,000 per year, all of which Mr. Wrigley is ready to invest in cotton and leave in the South. If the South buys enough Wrigley gum, the company will be able to purchase its 200,000 bale quota. If gum sales slump, less cotton will...