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...Still in his 30's, son of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Inventor Baird has won the esteem of Science after overcoming the inventor's traditional obstacles, poor health and poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing...
...that no man has done more to bring Scotch songs into contempt than Harry Lauder...
...SCOTCH WHISKEY...
Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland and Mrs. Bruce returned from Europe on the Leviathan last week, faithfully bringing home the favorite Scotch terrier of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon...
...Scotch whiskey appeared in greatest demand. Though no figures on sales were given out, it was estimated that in Windsor alone about $6,500 worth of spirituous liquors were purchased, with hundreds in line when the government stores closed. Chairman Hanna admitted that there had been a "congestion," but denied that there had been a "rush...