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...board the Hakusan Maru, prisoners changed their PW-stamped olive drab and khaki for white shirts and trousers, squatted down eagerly for a Japanese meal of baked sea bream, rice and sake. Said Yokoyama: "The memory of the destruction and murder committed in the Philippines will remain with me as a nightmare that I will carry to my grave...
...Worked-out cotton fields, turned to pasture, will yield 149 Ib. of beef per acre. But if nearby streams are dammed with earth and the fields shallowly flooded, they will yield as much as 600 Ib. of catfish, bass or bream, at a much lower cost per acre. So announced the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Like fields, the ponds must be strewn with commercial fertilizer (100 Ib. per acre), so that aquatic plants will flourish...
Thus went one of Jesus Christ's most noted miracles, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee which was variously called Tiberias or Gennesaret. The loaves were of barley. The fish may have been bream, sheatfish, carp or perch, all of which abounded in Galilee...
...Warsaw waterworks endeavored to calm apprehensions, pointed out that after floating 75 miles, 3,500 gal. of carbolic acid would purify rather than pollute the Vistula. But housewives were unconvinced, for down the Czarna, down the Pilika, down the Vistula floated thousands of dead fish: pickled pike, acid burnt bream, carbolated carp. Polish soldiers, ever fearful of water as a beverage, demanded larger wine rations...
...barrister Dick Pheny, though once or twice slightly coarse, leaves little to be desired. Miss O'Leary as Lavender, and Miss Sheridan as Minnie Gilfillian did good, faithful, and at many times charming work, Miss Sheridan showing perhaps more originality than Miss O'Leary. Mr. Booth's Horace Bream was well done, though the part is rather a disagreeable one. Next Monday will begin a short season of the favorite old comedies, with the same company...