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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1942
Page
8
The article promotes home sun lamps as a boost to family health during winter. It notes ultraviolet light supplements lack of sun in December through February, improves resistance to illness, helps complexion, and may prevent rickets in children. It warns against overuse and advises a safe, affordable model.
The article explains two main home lamp types. Safe and simple uses a special bulb with vaporized mercury that screws into a standard socket. Better is the carbon arc lamp, preferably drawing ten amperes or less, burning a carbon filament.
Use a sun lamp five days a week with rays like the sun. Let rays reach body and face, wear dark goggles. Duration depends on lamp strength. do not exceed prescribed time or a sun lamp burn can occur quietly and quickly.
Washington AP notes government tire sales set ceilings by OPA. Prices range from 1.50 to 11.15 based on size and condition with repairs deducted. Fourth category tires fetch 1.50, first category 11.15 for a 7.00-16. 600-16 tires show 8.10, 6.65, 4.45 across category levels. Maximum tube price fixed at 1.50.
Dan Kruidenier, commissioner of public safety, voiced skepticism but said council and Federation of Labor committee persuaded to use unemployed civil service lists as special police. Doc-Grinnell football tied scoreless. First Presbyterian celebrates seventy fifth anniversary with a sermon on liquor by Rev. Alvin E. Magary. First Congregational church sermon by Dr. H E. Milligan followed by a choir performance.
On October 15 1912 First Congregation church in Dubuque hosted a sing. Pupils from Lincoln school were dismissed after Prof B J Lambert of Iowa University warned that building floors were unsafe and keeping it open would be risky. Traction officials denied a loop proposal for Cedar Rapids and Marion street cars routing along Fifth Third and Third avenues and back to First Avenue.
A reader asks how to handle a changing boyfriend and lingering love. The columnist suggests trying a few dates with the other boy to capture the chosen one's attention and reduce dull attention from rival interests.
A reader contemplates relationship pride and patience toward a partner and mother. The fragment discusses envy over a girlfriend and hints at a remedy through calm behavior and bearing punishment without complaint amid a mother’s ill health. The tone resembles a moralizing domestic guidance excerpt.
The passage appears as a personal note or dialogue about reconciliation and family relationships, mentioning a boy, a cousin, and an old romance with conditional sentiments. No verifiable event, person, or organization is present to summarize as a news item.
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