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...actual execution of Prohibition will take place in Salt Lake City at noon S. M. T. Dec. 5 when the Utah convention meets to ratify. The death chair will be prepared earlier that day. between noon and 1 p. m. E. S. T. by conventions in Pennsylvania and Ohio...
...skinned, musical vagabonds of Europe's gypsy clans. It is most amusing to see our pedant brushing elbows with the more truculent half of life, as well as with the dusky female species whose advances he passes off with tactful gentleness, always taking his romance with a grain of salt and never once forgetting his station in life. We follow this troubadour and his disguise, waiting for him to betray himself and his vocation and we are not at all surprised to catch him meditating upon the companions of Xenophon when he comes upon the shores of Lake Balation...
...Chicago boys had never seen so much fish at once in their life, and since Chicagoans have a well-known hunger for fresh salt-water fish, a Yankee money-making idea was promptly hatched. With their last pennies they bought a refrigerator truck; which they loaded with the sea-food; and set out with all haste toward Chicago. For a whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each...
...almost 2,900 lb. per sq. in. This difficulty gives value to a new fluid which Dr. Arthur Dehon Little, Boston chemist, discovered in Germany and reported last week. "NS fluid" is the cryptic name of the substance. Basically it is a mixture of metallic chlorides-sodium chloride (table salt), anhydrous aluminum chloride and ferric chloride. The mixture turns to liquid at 302° F. and flows as freely as water. At 1,500° F. it is still liquid. Apart from its high heat capacity, "NS fluid" does not corrode iron or other ordinary metals and does not decompose...
...FREQUENT ENFORCED VACATIONS from College, I went to Washington and my father took me to see . . . etc." --W. R. Hearat, from the true words of the prophet in the Boston American, October 26. We always take such modesty from Mr. Hearst with large lumps of salt. It is interesting to speculate on how absence from Harvard does not make its heart grow fonder...