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Paraguay wants the Chaco because the district is larger than the rest of their country and its jungles contain great growths of the quebracho tree, whose bark yields 30% tannin...
...Gets What. As sanctioned by the I. C. C., the rail map of the East, exclusive of New England, would contain the following...
What is commonly called "ptomaine poisoning" is poisoning from foods which contain putrefactive bacteria. Fish and vegetables are more likely to be infected than meat or fruit. Soup is less liable to contain the bacteria. Infection may result from contamination during preparation as well as from age and exposure. Symptoms appear in from two to 72 hours. There are severe gastric pains, headache, nausea. Vomiting will bring relief in mild cases, hence an emetic is the first treatment, followed by castor oil, epsom salts or an enema. In severe cases prolonged illness with typhoid-like symptoms may result...
Potatoes normally contain about .06% of a poison principle called solanin. In potatoes which have lain partly above ground during growth or have sprouted during storage the solanin content may increase to a point where the potatoes are unfit to eat. Symptoms of potato poisoning are similar to those of ordinary food poisoning: chills, fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhea, such as Washington's picnickers experienced last week...
...everything?in industry, in technique, in literature, in life. . . . Among the Americans there are many sound persons physically and mentally, sound in their approach to work, to action. ... In spite of the fact that America is a highly advanced capitalist land, the customs of industry, the habits of production contain something of democracy, which you cannot say of the old European capitalist lands, where the arrogant spirit of feudal aristocracy still survives...