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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1937
Page
3
A historical note explains that premier thoroughbreds move between race tracks by railway express in specially built stall cars. It contrasts physical strength with the disciplined restraint of strong feeling, echoing Dickens on steadfast self control.
The article recalls Patrick Henry as the voice who asserted government as a social contract and liberty or death. It also reports Dr. Geo W Cox noting infantile paralysis as largely a summer disease with 69 cases in 1937, spreads via direct contact, and stresses prompt diagnosis, isolation for 21 days, milk boiling, and fly control for prevention and rehabilitation.
The piece surveys ancient superstitions as cures from ant broth to toad powder and wild remedies, noting modern science finds formic acid and alkaloids with mixed explanations. It then praises New England climate variety, cites Mark Twain on winds, and reports a child accident in Charlotte from an open door fall.
Mrs Minnie Jardow of Chicago has kept a house turtle named Mutzy for 32 years. The item notes a Buffalo man named Thomas Watters moved after his landlord sued him for five years of unpaid rent. Peter Walsh of New York faced a divorce suit. his wife offered eight rules as conditions to drop the suit, including abstaining from drinking and keeping a tidy home.
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