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THE CHINA MAIL.
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MONDAY JULY 30,
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HOP! HOP! HOP! His name is FLEA and who can gay from where he has hopped, or on what he has been hopping before? This dangerous little culprit, size for size, is many times stronger than a man-his spring is a hundred times his height, but the danger comes from his hopping and wiadering habits, amongst filth and disease, making him one of the most formidable enemies to human health ever known.
Science, blames this miscreant for spreading the worst disease epidemics of the world-from the ravishing plagues of early Egypt to that which breaks out in this town. DO NOT TRUST HIM He minds not what he feeds on, nor what he bites. He breeds in dust and darkness. He laughs at ordinary disinfectants, which cannot rouch him in his hiddentairs and breeding plaços.
HERE 18 THE ONE SURE, QUICK, OLEAN WAY to penetrate the wily defences of Mr. Fles and hip-kindred posts without bother.
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Tee Harris
Miss Dorothy Stewart.
Cupid smiled triumphantly when Dr. and Mrs. George David Stewart, announced the engagement of their eldest daughter, Miss Dorothy Irving Stewart, to Edward Hope Coffey, Jr., Because Miss Stewart was only twenty and only recently a debutante, her father,, who is President of the American Academy of Medicine and a res nowned surgeon, told the young couple that there was plenty of time for their marriage and became quite emphatic about it. They thought the matter over, made a quiet trip to the Marriage Licence Bureau and showed their respective parents the licence. Then parental consent was forthcoming, ·Coffey was a naval aviator during the war.
[Dr. G. E. Beffenmeyer
An investigation has been be- gun by the Du Page County Grand Jury into practices at the Lombard Sanatorium, at Lombard. Patients, it is alleged, have been starved "for their health," given the water, cure and made to lie naked in the sun-also "for their health"; Two women patients are said to have died there. Steps for a revocation of the licence granted Dr. George E. Boffenmeyer, one- man staff of the institution, on a charge of unprofessional practice, A are planned.
Jessie M Marelo
Plans are under way, as has been ascertained, for the development
of a huge, unified, privately-owned
"Troubles have multiplied for Mrs. Elaine Lee Harris, pretty 27- electrical system, capable of sup-year-old wife of Beverly D. Harris prominent financier and former plying the power needs of the Vice-President of the National City Bink. Her personal property and entire country. They are being baggage have been attached in St Louis by the Sheriff on a writ backed by the Westinghouse secured by Lee Merriwether, the attorney who represented her in her Electric Company, Guy E. Tripp, fight to disprove the charges made by her husband in his action to Chairman of the company's Board annul their marriage. Her allèged inability to pay counsel fees of of Director's, has admitted. Ful-$3,000 brought about the attachment of her propety. A hearing of her fillment of the plans, requring husband's charges is being conducted in the Missouri sity. “ years, would entail an investment
of five billion dollars and an increase of probably a billion a year in money spent for electricity. It would offer a practicable method of electrifying all of the country's steam rail-
of San
Police of Chicago have admitted roads, however. Frank G. Baum, they are seeking pretty Miss Jessic consulting engineer, Marie Morelock in their investiga-Francisco, has developed the idea tion of the brutal slaying of Rich-beyond the theory stage.
ard C. Tesmer, insurance broker, who was held up with his wife near his home by a male bandit and a girl'companion. The girl calmly shot down Tesmer as he turned to reassure his wife, then riffed his pockets of $10, while her partner-in-crime tore a ring from the hand of the horrified wife. Mrs. Tesner, show a photograph of Miss Morelock, said she was almost certain that the girl did the shooting.
Mayor Cryer
Mrs. William E Corey
International jewel bandits. according to police of Paris and London, were guilty of the theft of a pearl necklace valued at $200,000 stolen from Mrs. William Ellis Corey, formerly Mabel Gliman, noted actress, on her trip from Paris to London. Scotland Yard and police of cities on the Conti- nent rounded up well-known. jewel thieves following the sen- sational theft, but the missing necklace failed to
materialize.
Mrs HCWard
Mrs. Henry C. Ward, wife of Judge H. C. Ward, is defendant in
David Carnegie, Earl of Northesk, and Miss Jessica Brown a divorce action begun by her former "Follies" dancer, of Buffalo, New York, have learned for them- husband, who 73 years of age selves the truth of the old saw that true love never runs smoothly. ' Mrs GR Tucker The jurist has alleged that sheThe Earl came to the United States to wed the winsome Jessica, wh
married him less-than a year after he had fallen in love during her London appearance, but the couple All the hopes, and fears of Los Angeles' citizens depend on Mrs. Corey, broken-hearted over Miss Evelyn Dodge,, of Peabody,
Mrs. Gilbert R. Tucker, formerly she was divorced from Albert York on the ground that there was some doubt as to the legality of were denied a marriage licence by an obdurate bureau clerk in New whether Mayor J. C. Cryer,is in condition when he meets Mayor H. T. the loss, said the necklace was a Massachusetts, has married the Marshall in Chicago, Mrs. Ward, Jessica's divorce from her first hushand, Cyril Dewitt Reinhard, in Bacon, of San Diego, for the Mayoralty Marble Championship of Chrismas gift from her husband, son of her sister's husband and who is 38, has stated that the judge linois. Then Cyril himself appeared on the scene, with the declara- Southern California. Both are crack shots, and both have won their It consisted of 130 perfectly "mother" Relatives of the couple tion operation" and that he hasn't legal. The Earl and Jessica have planned to go to Canada for the now is entitled to call her sister recently underwent a "rejuvenation that Jessica was "not yet through" with him, and threatened action way to the top against Mayors of other Coast cities, Mayor Cryer matched pearls and was unrivalled are trying to figure out a score or
against the dancer if she weds. Her divorce decres, he said, is not has been photographed while drawing a bead on an “aggie?
in the world, she declared.
more complicated relationships.
Do you experience difficul-
YOU HEARD WHAT I SAID-
YOU GO TO THE CLUB AND BE SURE TO BRING LORD DE BATE HOME FOR DINNER
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BRINGING
SAY-LORD YOU GOTTA COME UP,
TO MY HOUSE
FOR DINNER
SORRY OLD TOP BUTAL HAVE ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT
been the same since.
UP FATHER
"HELLO-
SEND A TAXI RIGHT AWAY ---
wedding, it is said.
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