Medicine and Agriculture Intersect in N Y Times Reflection
The essay argues medical education must be grounded in basic sciences and links medical and agricultural sciences through shared foundations. It highlights Flexner on chemistry biology and physics, notes agricultural chemistry advances, and praises the agricultural experiment stations as engines of applied science shaping nutrition, disease transmission, and veterinary and human health knowledge.
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American Medical Association
Flexner
Allen
America
Agricultural Experiment Station
Agency For Applied Science
New Haven
Conneticut
Federal
Department of Agriculture
N. Y
Montana Seed Potatoes In Great Demand In Country
W S Pollinger state horticulturist arrived in Butte to oversee Montana potato show arrangements as eight carloads of Bitter Root valley netted gem potatoes were shipped to Yakima Warh valleys. He noted Montana seed potatoes rank with the best in the nation and Bliss Triumph shipments will head south for seed. Potatoes not harvested now are useless says Pat Carney the Potato King.
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Montana
W. S. Pollinger
Corvallis
Butte
Chamber of Commerce
Yakima
Warh Valley
Pollinger
Bliss Triumph
South
Idaho
Pat Carney
Waterloo
Carney
Chicago
New York
Ancient balances weighed to fractions of a gram
A survey of historical notes cites eighth century Arab scientists using balances accurate to 0.04 gram. It notes Canadian physician Banting baptism by Lake Osler’s Rev. Featherstone Osler and Hindu wedding costs driving families to ruin. It adds Mexican slang buoncho meaning mean and a district 1 forest roads expenditure of 2,078,000 dollars in 1925.
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Banting
Canadian
Featherstone Lake Osler
William Osler
Queen Victoria’s Rescue of Kew Gardens Recalls Royal Aid
The London Morning Post estimates about 250,000 Jewish Christians live worldwide. The note recounts how young Queen Victoria saved the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew from abandonment, implying potential extinction averted by royal intervention.
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Royal Botanical Gardens
Kew
Queen Victoria
The
London Morning Post
Kia-ju-kwan and the true Chinese deserts in lore
Langdon Warner recalls myths about Kia-ju-kwan and Shan-hai-kewan in Eastern poetry while Sir Aurel Stein proved the desert walls extend beyond the legend. The piece notes few eastern Chinese know of Stein’s finds, preserving Kia-ju-kwan’s mythic status.
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Europe
Peking
Sir Aurel Stein
British Museum
Langdon Warner
Soldiers of the Snow keep watch over Swiss Italian passes
A small group of young Italians stationed on the Swiss Italian St Bernard passes acts as a winter watch for lost travelers. Exempt from military service, they wear uniforms and report by telephone to hospice monks. They guard snowbound routes, saving many from death, as seasonal melt opens the pass.
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Switzerland
St. Bernard’s Pass
Horror of Horrors In the Columbus Dispatch
A passenger description notes a charming well dressed woman in a tailored coat-suit with perfect grooming and a visible flaw at her ankle where a black satin slipper shows a hole. The crowd admires her poised deflection as she leaves the northbound car.
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Columbus Dispatch
Noted English Hanging and French Redevelopment
The text recalls England’s last sheep theft execution in 1825 and a judge’s line about theft versus the sheep. It also notes over 95 percent of land and 91 percent of factories have been restored in France’s devastated regions.
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England
Sheep or Dairy Ranch on Main County Road
Ideal 800 acre sheep or dairy ranch by Beaverhead river with machinery, 16 work horses, 16 cattle, 20 sheep, 3 hogs, 150 chickens. Priced at 12,000 dollars. FRANK HAZELBAKER advertising.
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Beaverhead River
Frank Hazelbaker
First Envelope and Sealing Wax in 1696 Letter
A 1696 letter from Sir William Turnbull to Sir James Ogilvie discusses English state affairs. The epistle is preserved in the British Museum and notes that letters were folded and sealed with wax wafers. Sealing wax remained fashionable for envelopes for generations. Swift referenced a letter with an envelope in 1726.
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William Turnbull
James Ogilvie
British Museum
Dean Swift
Disturbance At Local Theatre Due To Coughing Patron
A theatre audience was unsettled by a persistent cough from a rowdy patron. An advertisement for FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND claims rapid relief for coughs and colds, with a testimonial from Mrs. W. T. Clary of White Plains Virginia.
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Foley
W. T. Clary
White Plains
Potts
First Iron Bridge of the World at Tronbridge
The first Iron Bridge in the world spanned the River Severn at Shropshire. Cast in 1778 at Coalbrookdale Ironworks owned by Abraham Darby the structure used about 500 tons of iron. All castings were keyed with no welding or screws. The roadway is 24 feet wide with an iron foundation and a clay base under road metaling. The main arch spans 300 feet.
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Tronbridge
Shropshire
England
Severn
Coalbrookdale Ironworks
Abraham Darby
Juggling Figures Reveals Death Count Mystery
A man experiments with arithmetic on living brothers, sisters, and dead kin. He instructs a friend to multiply, add, and subtract, claiming the final three digits reveal deaths, living sisters, and living brothers respectively, a curious Tit Bits puzzle.
Bare-Headed Robert Asks About His Baby Hair
A child named Robert watches a woman with a bald headed infant in church. He asks his mother if he was bareheaded as a baby, speaking in awestruck whispers while seated with his parents.
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Robert
Presidents Married Lives Longest Marriages Cited
The text notes that John Adams and John Quincy Adams lived married lives of 50 years or more. John Adams married in 1764 and died 1826 after his wife died in 1818. John Quincy Adams married in 1797, his wife died in 1852 and he died in 1848. No record of formal golden wedding anniversaries.
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United States
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
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