Porto Rico Education and Health Take Major Revenues
Governor Towner’s annual report shows education receiving 37.88 percent of Porto Rico’s 1926 27 revenues with 4 076 721 52, while Interior and Health receive 13.18 and 0.67 percent respectively. Rural schools expand with 64 new buildings and four additions. Malaria remains a health challenge despite declines in other epidemics.
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International News Service
Washington
Porto Rico
Horace M. Towner
Department of the Interior
University of Porto Rico
University
Boston University
Tropical Medicine
Columbia University
Department of Interior
Insular Tuberculosis Sanitarium
District Hospital
Ponce
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Guayama
South Carolina Bans Prize Fights Statewide
Governor John Richards has outlawed prize fighting in all 46 counties instructing sheriffs to stop any event within their jurisdictions. He asserts state law clearly prohibits prize fights and will enforce the provision despite personal views on the sport.
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International News Service
Columbia
S. C
John Richards
South Carolina
Richards
New Broadway Star Emerges From Obscurity
New Broadway debutante Barbara Stanwyck, from a nightclub chorus, rises with Burlesque as one of the season’s early hits. She hopes Arthur Hopkins will stage a social comedy next, possibly Sandita or The Second Mrs Tanqueray, to show range beyond typecasting. Katharine Cornell, in Somerest Maugham’s The Letter, is noted for a tropical drama written for her, with Messmore Kendall securing American rights.
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New York
Barbara Stanwyck
Rialto
Miss Stanwyck
Arthur Hopkins
Sandida
Texas man named director of national body
W. N. Blanton, general manager of the East Texas chamber of commerce and former president of the Southern Commercial Securities association, was elected director of the National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries in Columbus Ohio.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
W. N. Blanton
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Southern Commercial Securities Association
National Association of Commercial Organization
New Gland Extract May Be Important
Professor J M Rogoff of Western Reserve University reports success in crude glandular extract preparation that doctors hope may prove as significant as insulin after purification. He has pursued 12 years of research on cortex derived adrenal secretions and aims to treat Addison disease and other adrenal impaired conditions.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
J. M. Rogoff
Western Reserve University
Rogoff
Addison
Stanford U Reduces Freshman Class to 360
Stanford University trustees cap this year's freshman enrollment at 360, down 100 from last year, as part of a broader plan toward transforming the university into a graduate institution like Johns Hopkins. President Ray Lyman Wilbur has long urged abolishing the first two college years.
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International News Service
Stanford University
Cal
Johns Hopkins College
Baltimore
Board of
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Wilbur
Cortex Removal and Survival Observations
The report notes that some subjects move and continue to live after cortex removal and show no ill effects, while total cortex removal appears fatal within one or two weeks, concluding with a reference to an immediate death outcome.
Mut Boston Origin Recalled as Holmes Quip Evolved
A playful note traces the saying by Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. It started as Boston Safehouse is the hub of the solar system and was humorously corrupted to hub of the universe.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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