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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
3
An advertisement promotes Marmola Tablets as a method to slim down without strict dieting or hard exercise. It states the product has sold for over thirty years with more than twenty million boxes distributed. The copy notes it is not a cure all and targets fat persons with hypothyroid or low metabolism, urging consult of a physician for diagnosis.
Bakersfield California June 15 The Rev Joseph Howard of Bakersfield visited Molokai leper colony in Hawaii and found an orderly, happy settlement despite the disease. The model colony founded in 1866 by Father Damien is tightly guarded and accessible by permission only. The visit covered the hospital, infirmary, homes with gardens, social center, jail, post office and three churches. Damien worked 13 years as priest, doctor, nurse, undertaker and planner until his death from leprosy, with sisters from San Francisco aiding the colony.
A June London dispatch reports Europe’s Christian world facing intensified Nazi pressure on churches. It details Archbishop Waitz’s seizure of Salzburg residence, mass anti Nazi clerical opposition, and Nazi bans on religious broadcasts as part of a broader clash between faith and totalitarian rule across Germany Austria and Czechoslovakia with hints of Vatican negotiations amid ongoing persecution.
Foreign exhibitors from 58 nations claim costs exceeded projections by 10 million to 20 million dollars in the fair’s international zone. Estimates suggest construction averages ran 30 to 40 percent over. France, Venezuela, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, New Zealand and Siam voiced concerns, while AFL officials urged an impartial inquiry into labor relations amid alleged poor conditions in open shop concessions.
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