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...Connellys Director King and party visited Redcliffe, plantation home of the descendants of Senator James Henry ("Cotton is King") Hammond (1807-64) at Beech Island, S. C. across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Noted were its enormous hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully measured and photographed. When he got back to Hollywood he had the outside of the Johnson house reproduced in full scale (see cut) while interior scenes were made to suggest the big boxlike...
Organs of Head. Eyesight somewhat affected but fairly well corrected by the use of glasses. Difficulty of hearing, probably due to an extension of catarrhal inflammation from the throat into the eustachian tube. Teeth lost, or removed on account of decay...
...same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which was at the University a few weeks ago. It was a fused picture of the Armour rise and collapse and the Insull flasco. Always there is painted with vivid morbidity the panorama of where wealth collects and men decay...
Trouble with the mortar between the bricks found in the Business School Buildings has also been discovered in the Houses and on the stone facings of the gates about Dunster House. Workmen have been at work for several weeks in an effort to stop the decaying of the mortar on the gate posts. The stone facing on the posts is only one half an inch thick and the mortar has dried and fallen from its position, leaving the concrete beneath to the exposure of the weather which has already started to rot the inner section of the pillars. Expensive major...
...actually dangerous to ducks. Rains early in the breeding season encourage them to settle, raise their families on shallow ponds, sloughs and potholes. Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...