Random medical trivia and old jokes from a 1950s column
Fragments cover physiology notes on fear and breathing, a tongue in cheek jab about a Yugoslav official fired for wife complaints, a Miami Herald quip about a man breaking a leg in a fistfight, and nostalgic home front humor. It references Levittown growth and ad term confusion, Hauptmann trials cost, dream theory, and elephants with cavities, ending with a county editor quip.
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Miami Herald
Hollywood
Elmer
Levittown
Mutual Insurance Company
Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
New Jersey
Whittler Carves Frogs On Stockyards Posts In Texas
San Antonio weighmaster Marion Yarbrough passively entertains visitors at the union stockyards by carving frogs and lizards into cedar posts. The note mentions New Mexico claiming the oldest road in the United States, Os Real, established in unknown context.
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San Antonio
Tex
San Antonio Union
Marion Yarbrough
New Mexico
United States
Bubble gum boom grows into a 40 million industry
New York reporter Hal Boyle notes bubble gum’s rise to a 40 million dollar industry in 25 years. Philadelphia firm led by Norman Hutson produces 2 billion sticks annually and aims to sell every child ages five to fifteen one stick daily.
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High Point
N. C
Hal Boyle
New York
New Jersey
Norman Hutson
Hutson
Philadelphia
America
Russia Gains Chinese Silk Exports Amid Eastern China Trade
Tokyo Peiping radio reports that 80 percent of Eastern China's silk, raw and processed, is exported to Soviet Russia and its satellites. The broadcast adds that 70 percent of tea also goes to the same markets.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
China
Russia
Hospital meals draw patients back for more
Baptist Memorial offers appetizing meals that bring former patients back for seconds. Miss Ruby Scheider, chief dietitian, runs an outpatients dining room with special breakfasts and lunches for dieters who cannot find suitable options in regular restaurants.
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San Antonio
Tex
Baptist Memorial
Ruby Scheider
Not Too Old to Vote as 91-Year-Old Marie Girouard Votes
In Leominster Massachusetts Marie Girouard aged 91 will vote for the first time in November. The Canadian native has 13 children and 29 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Leominster
Mass
Marie Girouard
Canada
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Johnson’s Baby Powder
Rinso
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Hershey
Dean
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Gerber
LUX Toilet
Recut
Phillips Milk OF
Magnesia
Main ST
Iron Curtain
U. S
Ss. A
Korea
Borneo
Africa
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Peale
SPN
Rte
Mea Io
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