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...hosts of Sandino sweep on, attempting to capture the park, to use the stone wall for protection. It is now daylight?the Americans have not retreated an inch. The constabulary maintain their positions. The American sharpshooters are piling up the dead...
...mother, this at a time when Jesse was some miles distant. Thereafter Jesse considered that society had defied him to do his worst and he did it. He was shot in the back, at last, while in the act of straightening a motto on the wall, by a man who. had been his friend but yielded to the temptation of a $10,000 reward set by the State of Missouri for Jesse's capture or extermination. A lyricist of the day wrote: Why did they kill him thus so sudden? Why pin on him Death's awful lance? Why pluck...
Several years ago doctors paid attention to wall paper because they found that most of their patients poisoned by arsenic had inhaled it as dust from their green-tinted wall paper. Wallpaper makers ceased using arsenical dyes for their designs...
More recently doctors were interested in wall paper under which cockroaches and other room vermin made their nests. Cockroaches for a long time were thought by so able a scientist as Dr. Johannes Fibiger, rector of the University of Copenhagen, to be a cause of cancer (TIME, Nov. 8). Also, Paris green, once popular for killing cockroaches, bed bugs and like triflers, is made of arsenic...
Still more recently doctors have come to recognize the therapeutic values of colored wall coverings. That made the wall paper manufacturers glad; they performed researches. Last week they cheered, when Richard E. Thibault of Manhattan addressed their annual National Convention of Wall Paper Wholesalers & Retailers in Manhattan after this fashion...