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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1931
Page
4
A Lititz Record piece cites a million plus underage children and 150 000 entering school in Pennsylvania yearly. It urges better early health care including vaccination anti-toxin dental hygiene and widespread knowledge to prevent infant deaths noted as over 12 500 in 1930.
Health advocates call for extending child welfare efforts beyond a single day to a year long program. They argue annual progress will be better measured as knowledge about required actions grows each year.
A seven million year old dinosaur egg was discovered in a Florida phosphate pit. The find does not settle whether birds or dinosaurs preceded the other. The report reflects ongoing debate on early avian and dinosaur emergence.
The piece analyzes how mechanization and population shifts reduce farm meat demand and corn use on farms. It notes 1929 grain dynamics, exports limits, and the rise of motor power, tractors, and urban dietary changes curbing corn demand while raising questions about profitable expansion.
The Brittany doctor Theophile Laennec invented the stethoscope about 125 years ago. He solved a Paris hospital diagnosis by listening through a rolled book tube after seeing boys listening to a timber beam in the Louvre gardens. He also taught that tuberculosis is contagious.
The Alabama banker cultural committee urges directed credit shifts and a 25 percent reduction in cotton acreage. Emphasis falls on growing noncotton crops to strengthen agricultural programs across communities and improve the overall economic outlook.
The Virginius, an American registered vessel, was captured by a Spanish warship near Cuba during seven years' war tensions. Passengers and crew, including Capt Joseph Soxephery and 34 crew, were executed or sid juried, provoking U.S. demands for war. The ship was later delivered to the U.S. Navy and survivors freed. Spain did not salute the American flag and the incident closed.
The tuberculosis campaign targets youth with the slogan Tuberculosis-The Foe of Youth. Arthur M. Dewees notes childhood latent TB can lead to active disease, detected by tuberculin tests and X rays, prompting early protective measures. The effort, now in its fourth spring, is national under the National Tuberculosis Association and run in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society with 100 cooperating organizations.
The piece urges forewarning youths about tuberculosis and frames the struggle as David versus Goliath. It notes literature available from local tuberculosis societies and the Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society at 811 S Juniper St Philadelphia.
An account describes how Roentgen discovered the X ray in 1895 by accident using a lamp and a photographic plate. It explains the X ray as a physician’s key tool in detecting tuberculosis and notes TB as a threat to youth. Tuberculosis associations urge tuberculin skin tests for at risk youths and chest X rays for severely infected individuals.
A bank in Olympia Washington inaugurated a farm service department a year ago with a farm advisor. It cooperates with the state college extension service and the Dairy Herd Improvement Association. A pasture contest funded by four county banks offered $100 in prizes. Poultry work partners with the Cooperative Poultry Association and an economic conference for berry growers was aided. The bank farm advisor serves on the county Agricultural Council and Farmers Market. Six hundred farm business analysis blanks and farm account and poultry books were distributed to farmers helping start many businesses.
Aesculapius, son of Apollo and Coronis, learned medicine from Cheiron the centaur. Zeus killed him with a thunderbolt to guard mortal immortality.
A movie star with vast earnings shows happiness does not follow wealth. the Washington Star notes such acts underscore the old maxim.
The account notes Teary reaches the pole after crossing 475 statute miles from the mainland at an average 13 5 miles a day. Returning, aided by favorable weather, the return pace averaged 29.5 miles daily, marking a notable methodical expedition.
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