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...body requires a certain amount of common salt. Bromides drive out some of that necessary salt. When the displacement reaches 30%, bromide intoxication develops, closely resembling several other kinds of intoxication. The victim becomes drowsy and dull. His wits wander; his memory fails. He has hallucinations, "frequently of the colored type, such as seeing a Negro man or some dark animal." The well known bromide rash may or may not occur...
...year and one-half ago Engineer Hoover Jr. was engaged by Western Air Express to set up its communications system. Starting with three small stations between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, he now directs a network of 27 stations spread over western U. S., guiding radio-equipped planes along 15,000 mi. of airways. His staff numbers 75 engineers, researchers, operators, maintenance men. On his advice, Western Air bought $200,000 worth of airplane radio equipment. From communications chief he was last month promoted to chief engineer of the company (TIME, June...
Married. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, 68, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, No. 3 man in the Mormon Church; and Mrs. Alice Taylor Sheets, widow of the late Mormon Bishop Edwin S. Sheets; in the temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City. Fortnight ago Senator Smoot declared: "I'll marry no woman I haven't asked to marry me and I haven't asked any woman to marry me. I'll not say I'm going to Utah to marry and I'll not say I'm not going to Utah...
...Biological Survey has now declared war on the western porcupine. It has issued a leaflet describing methods for killing porcupines, by shooting or poisoning with a 16-to-1 salt-strychnine mixture (placed where cattle will...
Kathleen Norris, 49, novelist, clubwoman, war-abolitionist, feminist, is married to Author Charles Gilman Norris (Salt, Brass, Bread). She has one son of her own, Frank (two daughters have died), but in the summer the Norrises' 200-acre ranch at Saratoga, Calif, houses a cheerful bedlam of children?wards, cousins, children from miles around needful of home life and a good time. Among other fauna at the Norris ranch are children of Poet Columnist William Rose Benet whose first wife was Mrs. Norris's sister, the late Teresa Frances Thompson...