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Boston, the home of the bean and the cod, is also the home of the U. S. wool market. Until six years ago the Boston wool market was catch-as-catch-can. Buyers went west, bought up raw wool, carried it back to Boston warehouses whence it was sold to mills. In 1931, however, a group of woolmen founded a wool tops futures market under the wing of the New York Cotton Exchange. Lately wool prices have slumped as have most other commodities and last week the wool business, still unused to the complexities of a futures exchange, suddenly began...
Vegetables and fruits formerly were not a common source of illness. Over-ripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that has been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation...
...chariot race in "Ben Hur," a minute earthquake in "San Francisco," and, unless memory fails, it seems the locusts came to call in "The Good Earth"; a few hundred extras were shot or trampled on in "Charge of the Light Brigade," but to see nature in the raw without once thinking of miniatures, wind machines, or water chutes, to see the best love scenes in many a moviegoing month, to experience two full hours of complete mental anguish, a trip to "Hurricane" is essential...
Freshman crew prospects appear exceptionally bright this year. Harvey Love is blessed with a record number of prospects as compared with last year's relatively small turn-out. There is a great deal of raw material in the form of big athletes. In addition there are more experienced men than ever before...
...These substances cause scars. The blockade also prevents the free flow of lymph to the site of the wound. Lymph, in some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs. If, as in an inflamed wound, it cannot reach invading germs the instant they touch the raw flesh, the germs swiftly get into the blood stream where the lymph can do no good and the blood serum must perform all the germicidal work by itself...