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...Union Pacific official, rolled off toward Colorado. Two Pullmans carried the Press. At every stop there were several hundred proud Kansans waiting to cheer the second Kansan ever nominated for the Presidency.- "Hyah, Alf!" cried they as Nominee Landon appeared on the platform, grinning and waving, leaning down to pump outstretched hands. "It's mighty nice of you to come down to the station," drawled he to some. With others he exchanged news about the wheat crop or the grasshopper plague. By bedtime thousands of Kansans had been convinced that Alf Landon was still the same plain, friendly, likeable...
...demonstrate anew his ceaseless vigilance Harvard's despot sallied forth from his lair, and assisted one Miss Catherine Morison to unveil the new pump with all his oldworld chivalry and eclat...
...demonstrate that his thesis worked outside the laboratory, Dr. Blotner, 35, who strayed into this physiological bypath while trying to find out why diabetics cannot take insulin by mouth, performed the same experiment with digestive juice extracted by means of a stomach pump from healthy teetotalers. Natural gastric juices digested hard-boiled eggs in a few hours. Addition of alcohol completely arrested digestion...
...question of using the City water rather than the water from the old well, was also a cause for much discussion, and tests were made of the well water by the College. These tests showed that the water was not pure enough to risk infection by users of the pump. So present plans are to sink a tank in the upper part of the old well, which will be filled by the less historic but purer water from the City mains...
...well itself will not be disturbed or hurt in any way, the pump will be a faithful replica of the old one in form and position, and both the modern and antiquarian groups should be more than satisfied. John P. Brown