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...West is standing with its back to the wall, fighting for its very existence, and, come what will, this fight will go on until the people of the West are given a square deal, under the spirit of the Constitution, which has been denied...
...President sent to the Senate the name of Thomas F. Woodlock. "He lives in New York," cried Senators from the South. The President could not deny it. "He is a financier, a director of the Pere Marquette Railroad and the St. Louis-San Francisco. He writes for the Wall Street Journal, and even edited it once," cried Western radicals. The President did not deny this. He even let it be known that Mr. Woodlock owed his appointment to his experience as a financier. The biggest problem now before the I. C. C. is railroad consolidation, of which the financial complexities...
Nevertheless, the Senate adjourned stubbornly refusing to confirm Mr. Woodlock's appointment; the former Wall Street editor took seat without guarantee of pay; participated in the momentous anti-Van Sweringen decision...
...Acomal two temples were decorated with little faces stuck into the wall. Also we found traces of incense burners with faces on the altars...
...Gorgas Memorial Institute, explained in Chicago last week, there is ever the possibility of stomach ulcer, of appendicitis, of obstructed intestines, cases in which cathartics are a positive menace, cases in which only a surgeon or skilled physician should intervene. In cases of stomach ulcer the stomach wall is thinned or even already perforated. The carthartic induces the stomach to contract and the partly digested food oozes into the peritoneal cavity. Fatal peritonitis results. In intestinal obstruction the intestines may be blocked by the caked products of digestion or they may be blocked by a band, a twist, a growth...