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Diabetes. Drs. Bertrand and Macheboeuf were wise enough to announce, not a cure, but a new treatment "effective in a large percentage of cases." It is a solution of nickel and cobalt, administered by injection, or in the form of little pale pills...
...week, immediately after their conference with the stockholders of the Erie. Next they will confer with those of the Hocking Valley and of the Chesapeake & Ohio. They seek to mollify minority stockholders who dissented so strenuously last spring from permitting their roads to join with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate Railroad into a billion-dollar Nickel Plate System...
...first of August the brothers expect to have soothed enough minority holders to appear most circumspectly before the I. C. C. and to have fair chances of getting that body's approval to their Nickel Plate System...
Banker Van Vetchen's availability as a President is not lessened by his directorates on the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Advance-Rumley Co. (agricultural implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...
...letters a minute, is to result from an improvement achieved in the cable itself after long experimenting to gain speed by improving sending and receiving instruments. Around the copper conductor of the 3,800-mile strand is wound a continuous strip of "permalloy" ribbon, an alloy of iron and nickel which conducts current very freely, permitting signals to be sent close together...