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Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Knox Lansdowne, 74, mother of the late Commander Zachary Lansdowne of the Shenandoah; at Greenville, Ohio, of chronic heart trouble and gradual nervous collapse. Slight and frail, weighing not more than 80 pounds, Mrs. Lansdowne collapsed on the afternoon of Sept. 3, when two old neighbors broke the news to her of the Shenandoah disaster that morning...
...thus bring about wholesale extermination. On the other hand, investigators for the State Board of Health find possible contamination of human food from such infected rats. Experiments failed to demonstrate any great efficiency in the so-called exterminators but showed that they might lead to the production of a chronic carrier state, and that bacteria thus carried could cause food poisoning. The State Board of Health has ruled against the sale or exposure for sale of such bacterial rat exterminators...
...remedial Medicine and the "body-despising" ideals of Christians and Feminists. Says he: "There is no such thing today as a guilty conscience about bodily depravity. ... A clean mouth full of natural teeth, firmly set in unimpaired gums; a clean fresh tongue, not even slightly furred by incipient chronic indigestion; a sweet breath and the natural fragrance of a healthily functioning body?who knows love as Nature intended him to know it if he has not known these things? How many modern men and women can know love in this form ?" Counters Mrs. Russell: "Was love more delightful, then...
...something else which accompanies the virus when it makes an infection he calls "the specific factor." It is found in extracts from tumors. It may act as an irritant (for chronic irritation is known to promote cancer) or in some similar matter...
...coal industry, which has had to discharge 67,100 men since last November is in a chronic state of depression , France and Italy as coal customers have disappeared; for reparations coal from Germany and the coal from the now functioning Lens mines in the north of France supply all their needs. Furthermore, the use of oil, lignite and other low-value fuels is beginning seriously to affect coal consumption...