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...Suit has been brought in France against a physician for injuries alleged to be due to X-rays penetrating from his clinic across a street and into a house. A committee of the Ministry of Hygiene, including Madame Curie, is investigating the possible physical effects of X-rays at a distance and through intervening matter...
Charles E. Brickley (who in 1914 kicked five field goals for Harvard against Yale): " I was indicted in Springfield, Mass., for illegal stock negotiations and released on $10,000 bail. Since the dissolution of my stock brokerage concern in 1921, this is the second suit in which I have been involved...
...William Eastwood of Framingham reported to the Framingham Chief of Police that he had picked up a man answering to Clapp's description at about 8.30 o'clock Thursday morning outside Framingham. Eastwood was on his way to Marlboro by motor and found a man in a blue serge suit "and white sneakers" without hat walking along the highway towards Worcester. He said he was a Harvard student working his way to Albany. Eastwood took him as far as Framingham Center where he took the Worcester road on foot...
Earlier in the morning at 7.40 o'clock Franklin Macormick, who has a business address at 178 Tremont Street, Boston, saw a man in the Framingham Railroad station who answered the description exactly. Macormick stated that the stranger wore blue trousers and the top of a bathing suit over his shirt. He was alleged to have accosted him and to have made inquiries regarding a cheap clothing store, saying "all I want is something to make myself less conspicuous...
...seem limitless. When a maxim silencer has been invented for airplanes, and non-clogging pipe-stems have become actualities, inventors and scientists can turn their attention to the making of articles once suggested in joke. Stephen Leacock's "Man in Asbestos" may yet come into being, dressed in a suit of everlasting knickerbockers, and cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will be designed which will have regard for the quality of mercy, and will leave...