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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1925
Page
35
British Empire fuel board finds alcohol can be extracted from artichokes, potatoes, and mangolds as power fuel. Jerusalem artichoke touted for high yield, easy cultivation, and long self-propagation, rivaling potatoes which remain costly for alcohol production.
The piece notes Robert Reidt, once called the Apostle of Doom, now painting and hanging paper after predicting midnight doomsday. It mentions London’s few late hours and New York supper clubs, and young Willie Kane’s misguided curiosity about crime using a glass pistol.
London reports Dr. Cecil Webb-Johnson, dieting and obesity expert, warns tobacco harms female beauty. He says moderation is hard for women and links excessive smoking to undernourished appearance, yellow skin, and false thirst leading to alcohol habits.
American storage batteries shipped last year to 99 countries and regions, totaling 238 153 units with a market value of 2 869 851 dollars. In Honiton England an elderly woman 80 was found with her life savings in a bag tied to her big toe after admission to a hospital.
In Berkeley California on May 2 Mrs. Ethel Menz a former musician braved a life risking experiment to restore her hearing. For the first time she hears her son Jack speak without an ear trumpet and can understand him clearly after ten years of progressive deafness.
Mrs Menz recounts a daring method after partial hearing returns from a nose dive drop with the aid of an ear trumpet. A former Army aviator lifted her to 10200 feet then dropped 9000 feet, restoring sound as the engine and voices became audible. She aims for three more drops to regain full hearing.
Ottawa reports Royal Canadian Air Force aviators logged 8,340 hours of actual flying without a fatal accident while supporting ests and fisheries and government service. Alberta forests and Manitoba fire-hazard patrols covered vast areas as 40,000 square miles were photographed for topographical survey and a factory in Iowa produced over 400,900 butter tubs yearly.
S J Kell opens a weeklong display of the new Chrysler Six coach to handle expected large crowds. The car features wide doors, a aqua blue gray interior, long low lines, a one piece windshield and balloon tires. Chrysler aims for rapid output to meet nationwide demand.
Berlin May 23. The three cub lions born to Senta the prize lioness are raised by a Great Dane who acts as foster mother. Senta initially showed a disposition to kill them but the dog mother nurses the cubs as children watch their playful growth. A London doctor claims obesity in women is a disease equal to rheumatism.
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