I chanced on this letter.

The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.

Esthiomene simulates in its appearance cancer and lupus, from which it should always be distinguished by a microscopic examination of a section of tissue. There are inflammations of the vulva, especially in neglected gonorrhea cases ...

[…] we children had a platform—the “house in the coon tree," we called it—to which we ascended by the grapevine and on which we often sat reading books or playing and in season drinking (without ice, of course) pomegranateade.