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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1939
Page
3
A first person piece by Wanda Montz describes a dental visit in which nitrous oxide induces a dreamy, giggly experience. The narrator savors the twilight sleep and describes sensations, thoughts, and sounds as the dentist works on a cavity with humorous, surreal detail.
In 1781 Tiberius Cavallo demonstrated gas-filled bubbles, opening the path for early hydrogen balloons by turning soap bubbles into practical buoyant parascience experiments.
The King and Queen of England will trigger royal postmarks on philatelic mail. Covers must arrive in Washington by noon June 9 1939 and be fully prepaid. The royal train will not carry mail but the postmark marks history of Britain's first U S royal visit. The Cooperstown N Y post office will first sell the baseball centennial 3 cent stamp on June 12.
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