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...blow to the silk worms...
Frost in Japan. Mulberry leaves to the value of 7,000,000 yen were destroyed. This was a big blow to the silk worms, whose staple food comes exclusively from mulberry leaves. Japan's Privy Council formally approved the Lausanne Treaty...
...spring of 1923 a young lady, Dorothy King by name, had been murdered in her Manhattan apartment?strangled with a silk stocking. It was a magnificent crime. After a few days it was given out that the District Attorney knew of a "Mr. Marshall" who was connected with the case. A little later still it was revealed that the "mysterious Mr. Marshall" was none other than J. K. Mitchell, son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia partner of J. P. Morgan. At once the press took up the cry that a "rich man" was using his power to escape...
...great crops of China is silk. There are hundreds of thousands of acres given up to mulberry growing and many million people, men, women and children, are engaged in rearing silkworms and in spinning and weaving silk. The manufacturers in America could use, they tell us, twice as much raw silk as they can now obtain. If, therefore, the silk crop in China can be doubled there is a market already at hand and the wealth of the Chinese farmer can be greatly increased...
This missionary University at Nanking has naturally, therefore, undertaken to do something in sericulture. They are at work in a building which was contributed by the Silk Association of America and you may know what sort of missionary work they are engaged in: "The work of the year is chiefly centered around the production of disease-free eggs; grafting last year's transplanted mulberries; transplanting seedlings for grafting next spring; the extension of the mulberry orchard; adding to our already large collection of mulberry varieties both foreign and Chinese; carrying on a large amount of educational work, including a special...