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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1938
Page
3
Brooklyn youth Pete Lovett survived a barge captain’s gunfire and confinement in a dark hatch for about an hour. The horrifying incident, recalled decades later, left him convinced bullets could never end his career.
Historians say charivaris originate in the early fourteenth century. The custom then mocked marriages that violated strict social norms, with charivarists masked and targeting second marriages or unions of widely separated ages.
At a London assembly of bird fanciers phonograph records by Ludwig Koch showed British and Continental birds singing differently. Despite no physical differences, Continental birds varied in song from the English nightingale cadence, prompting the claim that birds too have area dialects.
A fashion feature highlights small neat silk prints as key to smart day outfits. It notes two illustrated costumes, one with a flower print and pleated skirt, a long waistline, and a Watteau hat, and another with a print featuring railway cars and a matching jacket. The article discusses various silk fabrics, prints, and coordinated millinery and accessories, plus evening silks and new patterns like dice and medallion designs.
Cherie Nicholas notes a continuing pastel tweed trend in spring and summer coats. The model wears soft rose shed and wool tweed with decorative slot seams and a full back silhouette created by a flare cut.
Voris of Hollywood presents a suede collection with Grecian draped dresses and white wedding dress copies for a California socialite. Daytime boleros, a dawn blue bolero lined in red silk, padded shoulders, and both feminine and mannish suede shirts are shown. Gored skirts have raw edges. suede slacks come in short and regular lengths with wide or mannish hems.
Charming hats herald spring and lift wearers spirits. Kettle-brimmed sailors in straw with candy-striped veils and soft felt hats with chiffon trim are popular. Many hats tilt to one side for flattering profiles. A black felt hat features a green velvet four-leaf clover, while a black picot sailor shows a large red apple at the front.
Dr. C Houston Goudiss outlines iodine hunger as a vital scientific issue. He credits Dr. David Marine and Dr. E C Kendall and stresses iodine for thyroid health, pregnancy, and child development, noting goiter belts and iodized salt as key preventives.
In a series of reader queries the discussion covers toast versus bread digestion, noting toasted bread may alter starch to dextrin but reduces overall digestibility and weight gain in animals. It also explains stomach retention times for meals, with carbohydrates leaving first and fats last, and clarifies agar agar as an indigestible carbohydrate with zero caloric value.
A historical account explains disfiguring goiter as iodine deficiency. Experiments in pigs linked thyroid enlargement to iodine lack, and a human study in Akron showed 50 percent of schoolgirls had enlarged glands before treatment. After administering small iodine doses over years, only 5 of 2000 pupils developed enlargement versus 500 of 2000 untreated.
The demonstration drew wide scientific curiosity and spurred further experiments, signaling a pivotal moment in research exploration and prompting researchers to expand investigation into related phenomena.
A request to write C. Houston Goodiss for an iodine chart listing foods rich and poor in iodine. The chart will guide balanced menus. Request the Iodine Chart by sending a postcard to C. Houston Goodiss at 6 East 39th Street New York City.
Sewing Circle offers pattern 6031 for a butterfly motif chair set buffet scarf and pillow accents. Includes center medallion design for wings and easy pick up work with full instructions material list and illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 W 14th St New York NY.
C Houston Goudiss offers readers access to his Experimental Kitchen Laboratory in New York City. He will answer questions on foods and diet and will respond to postcard inquiries sent to six East 39th Street New York City.
The paper presents faded handwritten formulas from a family cookbook once guarded by mothers and grandmothers. It contrasts traditional trial and error with today’s lab driven product development and national advertising of perfected recipes and formulas.
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