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Three puffy-faced, feverish children caused great concern near Panama City last week. They were the first cases seen in that region of a tropical disease variously called Barber Bug Fever, Chagas' Disease, Brazilian Trypanosomiasis. The disease spreads very fast. Victims who do not die become sleepy idiots...
...wealthy bachelor, maintained silence for several days. When it became plain that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain had no intention of offering voluntary apology to His Majesty's Government in Canada for the use by a responsible Minister of the Crown of the word "hum-bug," Mr. Bennett issued an official statement. The silence of the MacDonald Government, he declared "must be construed as an endorsement . . ." of Mr. Thomas' "condemnation in terms, unusual as they are injurious, of a proposal made by myself, on behalf of the Government of Canada, and which we sincerely believe...
...again to the Senate (he was there through Wilson's time). Retorted he: "I'm not in the vaudeville business. This is a serious matter. I'm not exulting over the defeat of a woman. Mrs. McCormick made a valorous fight." Senator-elect Lewis stopped, coughed, explained a bug had flown down his throat, left it sore...
...Every magazine, at one time or another, probably has had The Gold Bug or The Murders in the Rue Morgue sent in with some of the names changed, and has sent the fraudulent manuscript back as a matter of course...
...collateral reading, detective fiction is recommended, such as: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and Murders in the Rue Morgue, William Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. But Detective Dengler reminds his pupils: "The officer [in these stories] always wins against crooks by some superhuman effort." He warns against "disappointment...