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Several months ago, a party set out for the interior of the Darien peninsula, once more bent on the ancient quest. For days and weeks they remained buried in a wilderness of swamp and jungle grass, with nothing to connect them to civilization but a small wireless outfit and the monotonously regular stretcher parties that bore their muttering burdens back to the hospital at Colon. Yesterday, however, came a radiogram. The leader of the expedition reported that of the eleven original members, three were still left in the party; they intended to continue their march in the morning...
...Washington, Senator Royal S. Copeland, onetime chief health officer for New York City, introduced a bill to provide for a Bureau of Medical Research in the Department of the Interior. It includes an elaborate program for the purchase of 100 acres of land near Washington and a $1,000,000 research plant...
Three months ago the Bureau of Public Health of the Department of the Interior sent out an appeal from Washington for bedbugs, to be used for experimental purposes, and offered a remuneration of five cents per specimen to any citizen who should send one or more of the insects to the department's laboratories...
...turned bandits, carried off "many young men of rich families" and held them for ransom. Some of the "ladies" were pretty, so the captives got married and settled down to a life of banditry. Meanwhile, picked soldiers, "more heartless in treatment of their captives than the men in the interior districts," were "armed with modern pistols and iron clubs" and sent to "get" the "rough country ladies...
Died. Mrs. Laura M. Work, 64, wife of the U. S. Secretary of the Interior; of angina pectoris, in Washington...