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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1949
Page
3
Ohio polio outbreak shows eight new cases, totaling 1 476 statewide. Acting health chief Dr Charlies Freeble says the rise may still reach or surpass the 1947 record, though recent weeks have seen only about 100 new cases.
Some eel species cannot swim for several weeks after hatching and must drift with ocean currents until they develop swimming ability.
In the Great Forest Mr Fixit seeks whether his long white whiskers are the longest comparing with Daddy Ringtail and the Featherman. The dilemma leaves Daddy Ringtail worried how to please all and he postpones the decision until tomorrow.
Harvard physician Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff develops an electrophrenic respirator that may replace the iron lung. The device attaches to the phrenic nerve in the arm to stimulate breathing and has been used mainly to help newborns take their first breath. Potential uses include drowning victims and polio patients. It resembles a small portable radio.
Although common as bait in the west, many people regard octopuses as good eating. The note highlights a contrast between fishing use and culinary appreciation across cultures.
A short numerical puzzle describes a daily fortune game titled Wishing Well ERE. It instructs players to count the letters of their first name, adjust by minus four if six or more, or plus three if fewer, to obtain a key number. Read letters under checked figures in a rectangle to reveal the message.
After an eight hour search Baltimore police found their man who had been in jail all the time. Howard Mosby a 16 year old ar rested on a disorderly charge and released on bail asked to be kept in jail because he did not want to be late for the hearing. The docket note was missing and when Mosby failed to appear the search began. A turnkey finally recalled Mosby was in the lockup. Magistrate Kozlovsky commented that the case had missed time.
Lights from hastily arranged cars and flares lit the airstrip as Mrs. William O. Douglas arrived to be with her husband, Justice William O. Douglas, who suffered 13 rib fractures and a punctured lung after a horse collapsed on him. The Northwest Airlines twin-engine plane landed safely after a transformer fire darkened the field and a 20 minute circling period. Doctors estimate the justice could leave the hospital within two weeks.
The custom of sending cheerful Christmas cards is a little over a century old. Today over 1.5 billion cards are exchanged annually in the United States and about 651,600 steel workers are employed in the nation.
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