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...service and accommodations; but the weather is always bad, and he doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried back on the same expensive ship to America. The story is told with vividness and cruel humor. The other stories relate strange and morbid events. All are lone with great...
...Gases have been developed for the destruction of the cotton boll-weevil, the wood-boring teredo, various species of disease-bearing mosquitoes, barnacles on ship bottoms and other insect and mollusk pests...
...will remain for several days, including July 4. The factories which will be studied during this part of the trip will include those of the Ontario Power Company, the Shredded. Wheat Company, the Lackawanna Steel Company, the White Motor Company, the Goodyear and Goodrich Rubber Companies, the Toledo Ship Building Company, the National Cash Register Company, and the Procter and Gamble Company. While in Chicago the group will visit the stockyards and the large packing houses, the Grain Exchange, the Hart, Schaffner, and Marx and Sears-Roebuck Companies, as well as making a side trip to visit the United States...
...establishment of the American Merchant Marine Library Association was a direct outgrowth of the War, when books were collected from all parts of the country for use of both soldiers and sailors abroad and in training camps. The Association aims to establish and maintain libraries on board every ship in the American Merchant Marine. For this purpose the people of Massachusetts are asked to contribute 100,000 books to replenish the store from which these libraries are furnished, and to fill the boxes of books being sent to each outgoing ship. The committee suggests that reading on board ship...
...Royal Mail Steam Packet Company operates the largest steamer, the "Araguya", plying between New York and Bermuda. The ship is a palatial liner of seventeen thousand five hundred tons displacement and the luxurious appointments of the ship are a byword with travellers...