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Five prisoners on trial for "willful but unpremeditated murder" spent most of last week locked in an iron cage set up in the modest Court of Assizes at the little town of Chieti among the Abruzzi hills. The prisoners, who thus suffered only the normal confinement prescribed for dangerous criminals by Italian custom, were beamed upon by dark-eyed and fashionably gowned Italian Signoras, of whom there were dozens in the court. Other admiring females had presented them with especially woven Fascist black shirts. Their carefully knotted black ties and cool indifferent bearing suggested that no undue alarm surged...
...application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly yellow, which follows after the wave of red. The skin scales off in tiny flakes. The fever subsides. Later the skin resumes its normal tone. One attack of erysipelas does not furnish unaided immunity against future ones. This is the treacherous aspect of this disease...
...feel that the municipality itself should do so. Nevertheless solid business improvement, propelled by the promise of the Canal, has continued. A Florida-like boom seems impending at New Orleans as well as along the entire Gulf Coast. But the local people have proceeded slowly, have waited for more normal progress...
...inches in height with a queue 13 feet long. Imported from Choo Sang (island) by P. T. Barnum in 1881, he became wealthy from self-exhibition, retired in 1890, was twice married to U. S. women, by the first of whom he had a son of normal size...
Furthermore, the rural education division showed that, notwithstanding the large number of "recruits" enrolled, the teacher- teaching institutions had actually graduated only 40,484 teachers in 1923-24. Half of these were needed to take care of the normal increase, due to population growth, in elementary school enrollments. That left only some 20,000 trained teachers to fill vacancies caused by teachers leaving the profession. At that rate, the crops of new teachers now coming up are sufficient only if each teacher remains actively on the job for 30 years instead of six. In fine, said the rural education division...