Red Cross Urges Health Drive Across Nation
The American Red Cross presses a tireless health campaign beyond wartime service. Forty thousand six hundred thirty six nurses enrolled with 1,000 delivering public health, 1,100 teaching home hygiene, and 100 overseas on duty. Three thousand one hundred seventeen nurses are in Government service across Army Navy Public Health Service and Veterans Bureau. Nine hundred nurses joined last year. The Home Hygiene program reached 29,000 students while nutrition outreach touched nearly 150,000 people.
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Red Cross First Aid Battle To Conserve Life
The Red Cross promotes First Aid education and demonstrations to reduce accidental deaths in the United States. A report highlights Car No. 1 traveling 9 700 miles visiting 137 locations and training 147 000 people including railroad workers and students.
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Red Cross Urges Signing Up For Lifesaving Role
The Red Cross invites volunteers to enlist this year to support humanitarian missions. Community members are urged to sign up, with emphasis on available roles and training opportunities to aid disaster response and relief efforts.
Will Power Overworked and Life’s Real Drivers
The excerpt argues that crucial life forces like illness love and marriage are not produced by will power. It maintains that sickness is not caused by effort of the will and that love is elusive and not willed. Marriage often follows comfort rather than deliberate choice. Death is inevitable, ending the stage for others.
Cholera Drives Birds From Irish Rocks
Cholera swept through the British Islands from 1831 to 1882 killing over 60000. On the marquess of Sligo estate the largest rookery faced exile as disease chased birds to the sea. After the outbreak survivors returned, though many perished along the coast.
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Laundry closed by sickness in small Massachusetts town
A door notice at a local laundry in a Massachusetts town cited illness as the reason for closure. Passersby read it and reacted with laughter or sympathy, noting the clerk would be unable to deliver services for at least a week and possibly longer.
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Reading and Doing Quote by Thoreau
A Thoreau meditation on reading and action. He notes a good book teaches more by hint than by reading aloud and says he will depart to apply the lesson, barely able to hear a sermon before hurrying to Thermopylae.
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Cotton in the Sudan Could Rival Dixie
The Nile valley of the Sudan is rich and well watered, with access to water from the White Nile and Blue Nile. Increasing cotton cultivation suggests Sudan may become a major cotton producer and possibly rival the southern United States.
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Ancient Utah Juniper Declared World’s Oldest Tree
A juniper in Cache National Forest near Logan Canyon, Utah, is protected by the U S Forest Service as possibly the world's oldest living juniper. It stands 42 feet tall and 7 feet 6 inches in diameter near the base, estimated at 3,000 years old.
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Absent-minded Professor Feels Burglar Presence
A muddled professor returns home after a long lecture and, while entering his room, believes someone moves under the bed. The burglar answers that no one is there, prompting the professor to insist he heard movement and question the claim.
Ants Burrow Into Logs In Forests
In the West fallen logs often harbor ant homes. Small piles of sawdust signal their activity while tunnels run deep inside the logs, indicating ants are builders in these forest habitats.
Not the Crumbly Kind Dough Cake Inspires Comfort
A Boston Tram script notes a dough cake that yields few crumbs of comfort as a quirky metaphor for resilience in difficult times.
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Climate on Isle of Pines records mild year round
The Isle of Pines enjoys one long summer with small annual temperature variation. Summer highs rarely exceed 95 degrees and winter lows never drop below 50 degrees, making extreme heat or cold uncommon.
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Origin of Newport News Name Traced to Two Names
The origin of the city name Newport News is uncertain but linked to two individuals Newport and Newce. Captain Newport led the first vessel to Virginia and William Newce served as an early colony treasurer. John Smith wrote the name as Nuse.
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Study of telephone talk shows varying idle time by gender
The Tokyo telephone bureau reports gender based idle talk percentages. It finds 26.4 percent idle when a woman talks to a woman, 13.3 percent when a woman calls a man, 97 percent when a man calls a woman, and 10.6 percent when two men converse.
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Troubles Multiply When People Seek It
An old saying notes trouble seems to follow those who seek it, yet real troubles forge true grit and strength. The piece reflects on how the pursuit of trouble often leads to more issues, while hardship ultimately builds resolve.
Druggist Endorses Nerve Medicine Route
A druggist asserts the medicine is the best route for nerves and reveals he uses it himself at $2.50 a bottle. The customer replies that it has done him good, noting the high price requires nerve to ask.
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