Eyelid Crutches Aid Stosis Sufferers
W A Summers of Lansdale Pennsylvania describes eyelid crutches in Collier's Weekly. The devices use platinum attached to spectacle frames and fit in the lid fold to support the eyelid in a natural open position.
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1935
Page
5
W A Summers of Lansdale Pennsylvania describes eyelid crutches in Collier's Weekly. The devices use platinum attached to spectacle frames and fit in the lid fold to support the eyelid in a natural open position.
Postum Company offers a full week’s supply of health giving Postum free to anyone who writes for it. Readers are invited to send for the complimentary trial in this newspaper.
A Cambridge professor used the Sahara expedition to prove a perfect alibi when a policeman demanded he shovel snow on his Cambridge sidewalk. The scene centered on his absence from the area due to participation in the dig.
A year of uncertainty and shifting economies as nations face potential war, labor shortages, and changing political plans. The moon’s pull slow plans for earth day length, while figures like Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey are cited in reflections on aging and effort. Senator Glass and Hoover are quoted on money standards as Wiley Post seeks another transcontinental flight.
Eleanor Smith recounts a dramatic survival during an emergency fight for control at altitude. She describes a moment when a motor issue and oxygen failure left her choosing to dive between trees to save the plane and herself.
The article explains how amber forms from pine pitch or resin over geologic time. It notes amber originates from a pine species once near the North Sea and Catte, later submerged shores and storms tossing amber ashore. Ancient peoples valued amber for its powers and electric property, linking it to the word electricity from elektron. Today amber is mostly mined though some fragments wash ashore. Primary sources include East Prussia and scattered global finds.
The physician Hippocrates notes that when lockjaw appears ten days or more after a wound the patient tends to recover more often than when lockjaw develops promptly. The remark emphasizes timing in disease progression and outcomes.
Weather bureau records show 1934 had 76 true tornadoes in the United States, far fewer than 1933 and 1932, causing about 82 deaths and nearly 2.8 million dollars in property damage. Tornadoes appeared outside the typical belt in New Orleans, Cleveland, and Indianapolis, with no reliable pattern for future events.
Joel Relativity, six, discovers 26 cents in a desk drawer at Mr Smith's house. He asks if that is all his money. Mr Smith says yes, and Joel remarks that 26 cents would be rich for him, reflecting on poverty with a child's wit.
Ad copy touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as making woak women strong with no alcohol. Sold by druggists in tablets or liquid Ady. Claims a man who knows himself is a great man and marvels at being called great.
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