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Tuberculosis. " Cures " for tuberculosis emanated from France, Germany, Spain inside of one month. Rafael Santos, 25-year-old Porto Rican medical student in Paris, constructed a set of lenses for introducing sun rays and ultraviolet rays into the lungs without injury to tissue, claiming it would kill all tuberculosis bacilli in less than half an hour...
...might drive local newspapers out of business- much as large metropolitan department stores have treated neighborhood stores. On the other hand, aeroplane delivery would greatly alter the question of what news is worth printing. One of the San Francisco newspapers carried to New York bore in its headlines: BANDITS KILL POKER PLAYER; POSSES SCOUR MOUNTAINS FOR WOUNDED MAN; MRS. KERR FINED $10 FOR BATTERY OF WOMAN. Scandal may be useful for a national circulation, but " local stories" are not. If aeroplanes extend the range of newspaper circulation they may do away with "local news." But they have...
...Chemical Warfare Service is giving serious attention to the problem of developing a gas to destroy the worm which preys on golf greens and fairways, raising little piles of dirt. The gas must hang low and kill the worm without injuring the vegetation. The Service has already developed gases noxious to various kinds of pests, including the boll weevil...
...theories were immediately advanced for the assassination. " It was family revenge," say some, and point to one Herrera, the only male Herrera whom Villa did not kill. "It was politics," say others. Some of the assassins, apprehended by Federal troops, are held for investigation...
...original story Don José takes Carmen out in the country. In a secluded place he makes his final plea for her to love him again. She replies that she does not love him, that he may kill her if he pleases. She knows that he will kill her because she has read it in the cards. He leaves her sitting beside the road, goes to a nearby priest's house, instructs the priest to say a mass for a woman who is about to die, returns to Carmen, who awaits him with a tremendous fatalism, and kills...