Many Factors Contribute To Poor Dental Health
Dr. Richard Geiger reviews National Children's Dental Health Week findings and explains why half of under-15s lack routine care, with 50 percent needing orthodontic work and gingivitis common. He cites poverty, access, motivation, and education as key factors for lifelong dental health.
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Cedar Rapids Dental Society
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Monkey uses banana to coax escapee back home in Sussex village
In Lindfield England police used an apple and a banana to lure an escaped monkey belonging to 14 year old Christopher Ryder. The fruit tactic persuaded the animal to stop swinging on drainpipes and return to its home.
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Christopher Ryder
Midget Money and the 1861 Postage Stamp Economy
The Civil War era saw coin circulation vanish and federal aid fail, prompting use of postage stamps as money. Stamps proved usable yet flawed as currency, tearing easily and sticking, until merchants’ advertising teams stamped envelopes with firm names to offset costs. The era also spurred a one mill coin through state sales tax adoption.
Palls to Advertise and Early Minting Ideas
In 1935 Secretary Henry Morgenthau urged Congress to authorize a one mill coin to aid state sales tax collection, but the plan for "midget money" failed. The column answers reader questions on Indian heads, Flying Eagle cents, and wartime coin compositions with brief valuation notes.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morganthau
Congress
Rome Sacked by Goths and Vandals in Antiquity
The city of Rome endured sackings by the Goths in 410 and by the Vandals in 455, marking two pivotal blows in late antiquity that reshaped Western political and religious landscapes.
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Rome
Stay in Shape the Jack LaLanne Way
A weekday fitness segment titled Stay in Shape the Jack LaLanne Way airs Monday through Friday at 8 30 AM on Channel 9 guiding viewers through morning exercise routines with host Jack LaLanne.
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Jack Lalanne
Channel 9
Unions Debate If Queen Mary Is Ship Or Barge
In Long Beach AFL CIO Maritime Trades members picket the Queen Mary arguing she remains a ship not a building though the city lists her as a decommissioned facility. Coast Guard says she no longer vessels. unions push for their members to cover workers converting the liner into a museum hotel and cafe complex.
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Malcolm Uptegraff
Mary
Uptegraff
Cunard
Thomas Sergeant
11Th Coast Guard District
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