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Last week Dr. Dyer, weak, emaciated and quavering, left Washington's Naval Hospital. One of his caged fleas carried a virulent form of typhus fever which had almost killed him, had kept him bed-ridden for a month. But he was contented. He had demonstrated something more about typhus fever. In Europe the body louse carries the virus of typhus fever, transmits a form of the disease which kills 22% to 65% of its victims. In the U. S. there has been a so-called mild form of typhus with a 2% mortality.* Dr. Dyer was instructed by Director...
...brazen politician, he wriggled into the Senate in 1916 when Indiana's Benjamin Shively suddenly died. There as an Old Guardsman he has served continuously since. Twice he defeated the late Thomas Taggart, Indiana's Democratic boss, to hold his seat. For political support he has shrewdly ridden every popular wind, from the Anti-Saloon League to the Ku Klux Klan which has blown over the Indiana electorate. A fixture at most G. O. P. national conventions since 1912, he passively hoped for the presidential nomination in 1920 and again in 1924, was Indiana's favorite...
...that the other powers give her a position of equality-not that she be permitted to arm. It is due to the other nations that Europe is an armed camp-that Europe has an army of 4,500,000 men-that the leading nations are extorting from their tax-ridden people $5,000,000,000 a year for armaments. . . . "In individuals we loathe intolerance, we despise narrowness of view and insufferable egotism. But those things . . . seem to be virtues with nations...
...gentleman riders, last week was disastrous. At Media, Pa., at the fall meeting of the Rose Tree Hunt Club, Mrs. Geraldyn Redmond's Fairbanks II, ridden by Carroll K. Bassett, fell at a brush jump and broke his neck. Three days later at the same jump, the same thing happened to Kendal Boy, owned by Fairfield Osborn Jr., ridden by Stanley Flagg...
...crossed the ice of McClure Strait to Melville Island. Wolves! They saw tracks of an Eskimo sledge going northwest toward Prince Patrick Island. Tracks indicated that 16 or 18 dogs were pulling the sledge, six or eight people accompanying them. This sight was first reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter Harbor they found three herds of musk oxen and an old Eskimo settlement...