Insect allergies and cigarette relighting hazards
Insect dust from flies and other pests triggers hay fever in some people, with southern states reporting higher allergy rates. Anti allergy shots may desensitize many patients per Northwestern University expert. Separately British doctors warn relighting half smoked cigarettes doubles lung cancer risk for 10 to 19 daily smokers and 20 to 29 daily smokers, with weaker evidence at higher counts. Safe sedatives touted: two new sleep aids claimed safe despite potential overdose, one synthetic from Germany and another barbiturate with a built in safeguard.
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Associated Press
Edical News
Samuel M. Feinberg
Northwestern University
Consultant
Manchester
John Dark
M. Pemberton
Marion Russell
Lancet
Britain
United States
Germany
World Medical Nws
Fire hazards in homes cause most fires and deaths
The National Fire Protection Assn states defective or misused stoves and heaters are the worst home fire hazards. They account for 14 percent of all home fires and 20 percent of home fire deaths.
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The
National Fire Protection Assn
New England Vignettes by Walter Mears in Boston
AP dispatch highlights small, human moments across New England. A 95 year old Vermont taxi driver Sam Ladd jokes about never quitting. Two Maine boys survive a bear encounter on Moose Pond. Susie Pettingill preserves a family flag tradition in Rockport. Gull Rock Lighthouse in Newport burns as Coast Guard demolition ends a long era.
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Walter R. Mears
Boston
New England
Sam Ladd
Greensboro
Ladd
Susie Pettingill
Rockport
Mass
Ephriam §Etingill
Pettingill
Miss Pettingill
Gull Rock
Newport
R.I
Coast Guard
Fire Department
Applying for Social Security Disability Insurance
A reader asks about disability benefits. The program requires at least five work credits in the last ten years before disability, onset at least seven months before 65, and a condition expected to continue indefinitely or cause death. The husband has enough work history and could qualify in October, but the doctor’s assessment is needed to determine eligibility for lighter or temporary work.
Lerner to Lecture at UM Summer Arts Festival
Dr Max Lerner noted author and journalist will deliver the final lecture in the University of Maine Summer Arts Festival on August 10 at 10 am in Memorial Gymnasium. The public is invited free, followed by an 8 pm Kroll quartet concert in Women's Gymnasium.
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U.S
Lerner
India
Yale
Brookings Graduate School
Kroll
Want Some Flowers For Rock Garden
Mrs Biddeford of 36 Green Street offers her six year rock garden for sharing. She cannot maintain it and will give away unusual plants and cuttings from travels in Canada and other areas. Contact after 5 pm each week to arrange pickups.
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Helen Buckley
Green Street
Rock Garden
Biddeford
Canada
Algeria's Contrasting Geography Along Atlas Ridge
North of the Atlas Mountains Algeria features a narrow coastal belt fertile with vineyards citrus and vegetables while southward the land becomes the vast arid Sahara Desert.
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Algeria
Altas Mountains
Sahara Desert
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Little Folks Shop
Department Stores
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Washington Street
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Biddeford Nichols & Co
Wellwood’s
Youland’s
Deyon’s Pharmacy
Water Street
Liggett’s Drugs
Percy’s Pharmacy
Alex
Alfred. Biddeford
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Pepperell Square
Murphy’s
Tersha’s Fashions
Bacon Street
Unity Dress Shop
A. H. Benoit
Fenderson
Elm Street
Lewis Polakewich, Inc
Green's Shoe Store
Delisle’s Yard
Bagley’s Super Markets
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Mame
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Seul
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