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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1951
Page
10
Yale doctors William H. Sewell and William W. L. Glenn report in Surgery on a mechanical heart pump that temporarily assumes the right heart’s duties to facilitate open heart operations. In dog trials the pump operated up to 100 minutes with animals recovering fully, but human trials remain unsafe.
Joseph Blandford, Maryland PALA State Committee chairman, urges farmers to sign up for the Production and Marketing Administration conservation program before deadlines. The notice stresses soil care amid increased defense production and explains that the program offers multiple practices to improve farms. It also notes the Defense Department’s essential-activities list and highlights a spring scrap-drive to aid steel mills, with 1951 scrap needs and loan-rate details for 1950 Maryland tobacco.
Forged steel scissors and shears provide strength and a sharp edge. Choose between scissors with equal handles or bent handle shears for flat cloth and accuracy on heavy fabrics. Bent handles aid long cuts. small sharp-pointed scissors handle thread snipping. ensure blades stay sharp to tips.
Smithsonian researchers are using X rays to diagnose ancient bones in pursuit of medical insight. Dr William J Tobin and Dr D J O Regan, along with Dr T D Stewart, analyze Egyptian mummy feet showing hammer toes and other deformities. The Georgetown University hospital radiology department supplied the X rays. The work aims to reveal maladies common then and now and understand their progression.
New findings show lightning can strike upward from the ground as a rapid current back and forth between strong charges in the cloud and the soil. Understanding upward current helps explain how damage occurs and how to avoid it.
A passage notes that nylon threads are made by forcing a liquid through tiny holes and solidifying in air, while a silkworm achieves similar thread formation through a minute opening in its upper lip. The piece casts the silkworm's method as a humorous comparison to modern industry.
The Kent and Sussex Racing Association announces the spring harness meet opening May 3 with twenty races at parimutuel tracks. Stable entries include Norman Myrer's group from Alaine featuring Trade Mark at 2.05 mile and 2.09 half mile, son of Iris Majesty aged six owned by W N Ras of Anson. Ras also enters Lawson Hanover with 2:10.1 on a mile track and 2:13.2 diagonal gait. Junior 6, a black colt by Congress-
The article details stables in Maine racing several colts and pacers including Pondinia ob Blooms bury and Lads Ann Watt bi with owners and trainers named. It also notes motorists objecting to proposed excise tax increases, arguing higher levies hit the heaviest taxed citizens, citing Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland and Washington DC as examples and the potential rise in new car costs.
In a report to Westone’s 110000 members J Maxwell Smith of the iSewstone Automobile Club denounces proposed 20 percent federal excise taxes on new autos and a rise in the federal gasoline tax from 1 to 3 cents. He cites Korea and world events as shifting the domestic outlook and urges action.
A woman member of the American Bankers Association cites examples of competent wives who manage money better than spouses. The April 29 issue of The American Weekly features the article Women CAN Manage Money, in the nation’s popular magazine with the Baltimore Sunday American.
Ad notice urges steady habit forming with a sales pitch claiming benefits from consistent routines. The fragment promotes a methodical approach and implies financial gain from following advertised guidance.
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