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...results are perhaps most amusing when prophets write history and historians prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time...
...early hour this morning no trace had been found of Verner Warren Clapp 1G., of Washington, D. C., missing since yesterday morning. All day the Metropolitan police dragged the Charles River between the Newell and Weld boat houses, working on the theory that Clapp had been drowned. Later developments, however, lead the authorities to believe that he is alive...
...figue in khaki shirt and blue trousers had been seen running along the Charles River bank opposite the Mount Auburn Cemetery at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Several of Clapp's friends and a detail of Metropolitan Police searched the woods and swamps below the Speedway, but no trace had been found at the hour of going to press...
Chlorine was found to be a preventative for pneumonia and influenza when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...
...Andre Citroen, largest automobile manufacturer in France, made a pilgrimage to the Ford plants in Detroit; his enthusiastic admiration was tempered only by a regret at the inartistic character of Mr. Ford's well-known product. " Nothing about Ford or his plant suggests a trace of the finer aesthetic qualities," he stated. " One can make cheap, rapid cars, but they do not have to be ugly." Proposing to give the inexpensive car beauty and form, M. Citroen has announced that he will establish an American plant, designed for mass production, but embodying artistic ideas. The plant will be located...