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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1919
Page
11
Mrs Albert Huey from Third St. says Doans Kidney Pills eased her back soreness and kidney irregularity after years of suffering. She praises the remedy from The Re’s Drug Co and reports her energy returning and dizziness fading.
A five member panel conducts further trial activity regarding the CHAS BRANDENSTEIN case at the Press O Lite Service Station, with Bell Phone numbers 77 and Weilwesn 21 referenced in the docket.
A new French remedy from mistletoe extract, called vis hum, is reported to help control certain hemorrhages. Developed by Dr. Eraud Pe and Dr. Desan, it can be administered as pills or injections and is noted to affect blood vessel activity.
The eastern railroads tested coal burning engines replacing old starters. Eight days saved $163 in fuel. annualized to about $8,774 on twelve lines. After deductions the gain equaled 1% of an engine over twelve years. Sparks and fire hazards noted during upgrades.
A machinist at 188 John Street tested a red dahlia by feeding it plant food, sheltering it, and pampering it in a hothouse. He then subjected the plant to cold, irregular meals, nocturnal waking, and displacement. The bush finally reacted with a single white bloom in anger at the mistreatment.
Green vegetables and fresh fruits are valued for health benefits. The Journal of the American Medical Association notes they contain vital vitamins essential to health. Dr Osborne and L B Afendel report spinach has high vitamin content supporting normal growth.
A boatful of fishermen recounts a bizarre event after a gudgeon hung on a spur near a horseman in the bow. The fish struck the water, sending the man tumbling in as a large jackfish latched onto the spur, prompting a rescue effort and a dramatic pull of the horseman from the water.
Capt Galway Warren reports Tebeldi or Adansonia Agua trees store water for long periods by hollowing a shell to form a basin near the base. Natives rent trunks to keep drinking water for travelers and store it for years. bark yields rope and nuts yield bitter flour with shells used as snuff boxes.
A Boys’ Life note explains planting memorial forests and protecting wildlife. It describes using a blunt peg driven into a perpendicular trunk cut to make a hat rack or clothes rack without injuring the tree. The upright wound heals with little scar, preventing lasting damage when the peg is removed.
A lone yawn often triggers others to yawn as well. The text suggests that contagious yawning arises not from noticing the first yawn but from a belief that the room lacks good air for all, causing many to yawn around the same time.
Dr. Herbert R. Spencer of London explains in a Lancet letter that babies favor a button-ended turned-up nose to breathe while nursing and gripping skin. He notes most infants have this nose unless belonging to races with hook-nosed features where the nose may turn down into a partial hook.
The piece notes the 1878 yellow fever outbreak in the Mississippi valley with Cairo deaths, board expenditures for rent and furniture, 22 medical exam graduates in 1879, and the state health board’s yearly financials. It cites Salem measles and diphtheria cases, Chicago projections, Quincy druggist pledges, and October disease case counts including diphtheria influenza measles scarlet fever smallpox tuberculosis typhoid fever whooping cough pneumonia infantile paralysis erysipelas chickenpox spinal meningitis gonorrhea and syphilis.
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