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John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl Jellicoe, Wartime Commander of the British Grand Fleet, underwent in London an operation on his upper jaw bone...
That single archaic skull and the commingled bones of the ten bodies and their limbs, all fossilized, scientific diggers recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...
...Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American coast. He ordered a sounding lead dropped. At 100 fathoms it should have touched bottom. It touched nothing. Twice more he sounded. No bottom. Although puzzled he decided that he was on his correct course and the Shelf might be out of place. Apparently last month's earthquake (TIME...
...Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. Anna McLuckie, 60, sleeping, was awakened by the bed shaking, thought it was an earthquake, leaped out, fainted, and broke her collar bone...
...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...