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...that 16 or 18 dogs were pulling the sledge, six or eight people accompanying them. This sight was first reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter Harbor they found three herds of musk oxen and an old Eskimo settlement. Reported Adventurer Verville: "These Eskimos have milk-white skins, except where their face and hands have become tanned and weather-beaten...
Died. Sarah Jane Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known...
...this reason that the Vagabond only yesterday tasked himself with unpacking the casteroed hair-trunk which arrived a week ago from the sequestered loneliness of his cabin on the heights of Monadnock. Among the tobacco tins and books he found one small red box. It bore the legend "Salome: Gold Tipped," and in the tinfoil lining there was a stale, forgotten cigarette, still slightly fragrant with rose...
Last fortnight a eugenist reported that women loaded with lactic acid would bear daughters while alkaline women bore sons (TIME, Sept...
...Boys. Through Dr. Sanders (see above) Dr. F. Unterberger of Koenigsberg sent word that if women drink great quantities of bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline régime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...