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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 11, 1913

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 90, No. 37.

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News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press
— Early on the morning of September 2, a disastrous wreck on the New Haven and Hartford Railroad occurred near New Haven, Conn., resulting from a rear-end collision. Twenty-one persons were killed and fifty injured.
— The Mexican situation is still apparently marking time. President Huerta is mobilizing a new and greater federal army, while President Wilson and his associates, supported by Congress and public opinion, hold to their announced determination to bring about peace through peaceful methods. Although negotiations between Secretary Gamboa and Special Envoy Lind have been broken off, the latter will remain in Vera Cruz indefinitely.
— Among the many unique forms of mental disorder that will be made the subject for occupational and suggestive treatment in the new Phipps psychiatric clinic, of Johns Hopkins Hospital, will be that mental affection known as the “blues.” While in themselves the blues do not constitute insanity, according to science, it has been acknowledged by brain specialists that, psychologically, they really are symptoms of approaching insanity in a very mild form, so mild as to be hardly noticeable.
— Some interesting figures comparing the price of real estate in New York City with the prices paid for territory purchased at different times by the United States were recently published by one of the great realty companies. The price paid for the Louisiana Purchase, which includes several great States, was $15,000,000. This territory is rich in natural resources, and lies in the best farming belt in all the land, yet it cost no more than was received last fall for a single block in New York City. We paid $10,000,000 to Mexico for the State of Texas, a State larger than France, while the Woolworth Building on Broadway cost $13,000,000. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is valued at more than $7,200,000, the price paid for Alaska.