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...state procession passed through newly renamed Mussolini Square, one of the Queen's snow-white Arab horses reared dangerously. A nimble Hungarian soldier sprang to his head in time to avert damage to Her Majesty. About 30 persons were overcome by the heat but otherwise it was a successful parade. Hungarian police had carefully searched every house along the route, ordered all households that had no flags to buy them...
Very different, however, is the condition of the baby's eyes which the health officer [Dr. George C. Ruhland] of the District of Columbia is endeavoring to avert. A certain number of children in every community are infected at birth or soon after with a most virulent pus, often gonorrheal, which gets into their eyes from the birth passages of the mother. It excites an inflammation so intense that in many cases the eyes are irrevocably lost before it can be controlled. The discovery made more than half a century ago, that the organisms causing this inflammation could...
...unusual or excessive. In 1925 the price in Canada was $75, although then there was nothing like the demand for pulp for other than news print purposes that there is today. Demand has definitely overtaken supply, and if there is no major international disturb ance, there is nothing can avert an acute shortage in five years' time...
...Manhattan arrived "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey from the flood area brimming with a plan to avert similar catastrophe: to straighten out the Mississippi River from Cairo, Ill. to the Gulf of Mexico, making it 600 miles long instead of the present 1,200. Crowed he: "Henry Ford is just wild about my plan...
...words simultaneously translated into Portuguese (for the Brazilians), French (for the Haitians), Spanish (for other Latin Americans).† Little world-shaking advice did the President have to give but he won loud applause when he declared: "Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert the catastrophe which impends? Yes, I am confident we can," and again when he cried: "Let no man or woman forget that there is no profit in war." Loud bravos and applause followed his conclusion. Four days after this thrilling start, the delegates managed to recover their composure, organize their...