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Burrowing Fleas, which dig into man's flesh, become distended with a huge number of eggs. The sufferer works about the prospective flea family with a thorn, carefully removes the parent flea. Unless great care is taken the body will be broken, the operation rendered useless. Often a salve made from crushed ants is applied to such open wounds...
...faith in the judgment that successfully brought them from automobile sun-visors to radio horns, from radio horns to battery eliminators, from battery eliminators to complete receiving sets. On April 4 Majestic Household Utilities was incorporated to manufacture the Grigsby-Grunow refrigerators and, later, vacuum cleaners, washing machines. The parent company received 125,000 shares; 374,950 will be sold by subscription at $25 a share. Last week Majestic Household opened on the Chicago Exchange at $44, began jumping in the same way that made Grigsby-Grunow famed. By the end of the week it had touched...
Each & every child in the U. S. and Canada whose twelfth birthday comes this year is eligible to march into a corner drugstore or a Kodak Shoppe with its parent on or after May I and demand to be given, free, one special Model C "HawkEye" box camera and film-roll to match, made by George ("Kodak") Eastman or Rochester, N. Y. (TIME, April 14). The Hawk-Eye is sold to all persons over or under twelve this year for $1.25. If all the twelve-year-olds are honest and do not go from store to store to get more...
...statistician of the Long Island Railroad, Penn-owned commuters' road into New York City, revealed a curious statistic: the Long Island, 404 miles long, last year actually carried more passengers than did its 10,511-mile parent. The score was 118,888,128 for the Long Island to 113,713.797 for the Pennsylvania. The average revenue per passenger on the Long Island, however, was only $.23 as against $1.18 on the Pennsylvania...
Education is the prime purpose of zoological gardens, and no zoo is complete without monkeys. Children like to watch monkeys better than anything except elephants. But at sight of how the monkeys play, both alone and with other monkeys, many a parent has wondered about the educational value of monkeys...