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...Habaña filth was the predominant motif, with yellow fever the counterpoint, U. S. health officials scoured the city clean, but yellow fever persisted epidemically. Dr. Walter Reed came with his staff from Washington to investigate. On the hunch of an old Cuban physician, he experimented with mosquitoes, heretofore unsuspected and felt fairly assured that they were the carriers of the dread malady. But he needed proof and he found it when, after months of experiments, a virulent mosquito bit and infected one of the doctors on his staff. Another intrepid physician submitted himself to experimentation, was infected, died...
...House, Theodore Roosevelt sat chatting with Leonard Wood after a stiff fencing bout. Leonard Wood had recently completed a health-harassing, nerve-defying job which history may well record as the most brilliant proconsulship of the age. (History is even now saying that in four years Leonard Wood advanced Cuban civilization four centuries...
...Cuba, 'which he reached as Colonel of Rough Riders, General Wood was officially responsible for elimination of yellow fever. Even more to his credit, he taught the Cubans two entirely new ways of life ? sanitation, self-government. Typical of the esteem of his subjects was the occasion when he, a Puritan, was invited to assist at the elevation of a Cuban archbishop...
...Chesapeake & Potomac of W. Va., Cumberland T. & T., Ohio Bell, Cincinnati & Suburban Bell (29%) Michigan Bell, Indiana Bell, Wisconsin Tel., Illinois Bell, Northwestern Bell, Southwestern Bell, Mountain States T. & T., Pacific T. & T., Bell Tel. Laboratories, Bell Tel. Securities, Bell Tel. of Canada, Central Union Tel., Cuban-American T. & T., Western Electric (almost exclusive manufacturing agent), 195 Broadway Corp., 205 Broadway Corp. Portions of their individual earnings go to the profit of the parent corporation...
Last week that swart Cuban, José Capablanca, chess champion of the world, arrived at Moscow. It was reported that (he Soviet Government had enticed him thither with much spot cash gold. There came also Dr. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) former world champion; Frank J. Marshall, U. S. Champion, and E. D. Bogoljubow (Ukrainia). They were met by 30 Russian chess players. After entertainments worthy of Lucullus, all sat down to play off the first international chess match to be held in Russia since the fall of Tsardom...