Vitamin D treatment shows promise for crippling arthritis
A six year study of 250 patients with severe arthritis treated with large daily doses of Vitamin D in heat vaporized ergosterol (Ertron) reports 22 good or excellent, 8 poor, and the rest fair or undetermined. Several patients regained normal function including a golfer and a tennis star. no serious Ertron toxicity observed.
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Canada
Stratford Beacon-Herald
R. G. Snyder
Willard. H. Squires
John W. Forster
Hospital For Special Surgery
New York City
Ertron
How Can I Cleaning Woodwork and More
How Can I? by Anne Ashley offers quick home answers. It covers mixing vinegar kerosene and water to clean painted woodwork, washing brushes with hot soda water and soft soap, refreshing waxed floors with ice water and dry cloth, kerosene for mosquitoes, and hyposulphite of soda for whitening yellowed white silk with careful dipping.
Plea For Trees Elms Worth Far More Than Cash Value
An eminent entomologist notes that 50 elms recently sold for 3 000 apiece and many could be worth 5 000. The Guelph Mercury urges owners to plant trees and avoid needless destruction, highlighting non monetary value. Mounted mail carriers gave Amsterdam a pony express in 1400.
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Guelph Mercury
Amsterdam
Bank Balance and Courtship Laughter Dialogue
Jones confesses he had a smoothing in the bank but after meeting your daughter it vanished. The father quips about costly courtship and love making the world go around, while Jones laments losing his balance.
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Jones
Doctor and Patient Exchange Hours Fragment
A brief dialogue shows a doctor insisting consulting hours run from 6 to 7 p.m. The patient interrupts with a terse remark about the dog. The exchange captures a minor moment in a medical setting.
Anniversary Vases and Food Fables in a Domestic Exchange
A collection of brief dialogue snippets shows a professor discovering a vase signals an anniversary, a clerk asking for time off to shop, a boss denying leave, and a husband wife banter about cooking and saving. The humor centers on misread clues and social roles.
Etiquette Qs and Answers by Roberta Lee
A Q and A on wedding invitations hosting manners and guest courtesy. It covers addressed envelopes for divorced women, guest second helpings, purse carrying, gloves for bride’s attendants, hostess greetings, and whether to address families with one invite.
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George L. Smith
Grace Wilson
Grace Jones
Jones Wilson
Ammunition Use Compared to Napoleonic Battle Rates
An estimate equates 50 fighting planes using 300000 rounds of small arms ammunition in one minute to the amount 10000 soldiers would fire in a single day of battle in Napoleon era.
A General's Banquet Reply to a Talkative Alderman
A Marlborough general at a City of London banquet faced a persistent alderman probing military life. The general joked that soldiers work about four hours in the morning and two or three after dinner, then have the rest of the day free.
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Marlborough
London
Removing Hi-test Gas Dangerous Work
Merseyside firemen worked two days to pump 1,500 gallons of high octane aviation spirit leaking in a ship's hold. They stripped to the waist and used hand pumps to transfer the fuel into 45 gallon drums. Helpers relieved them regularly to avoid intoxication from fumes and oxygen apparatus stood by for rescue or revival.
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Merseyside
Australians Held in Japan War Prisoner Figures
Australian Army Minister Francis Forde said to Geneva that 10 166 Australians are prisoners of war in Japan, including 898 officers. A Tokyo radio report cited 3821 more missing, with 9995 others, including 234 officers, listed as missing.
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International Red Cross
Geneva
Francis Forde
Tokyo
Forde
Cook Who Turns Rice and Turnips Into Two Meals a Day
Patrick Fitzgerald told the Royal Geographical Society a cook in China used to turn a simple mix of rice and turnips into two meals daily for five days, delivering a different flavor each time.
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Lord Woolton
Patrick Fitzgerald
Royal Geographical Society
China
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Lady Hunter
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Davenport Road
Uxbridge Ave
Toronto
John
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Yonge Street
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Hamilton, Ont
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Ontario
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Goodison
Rumley Tractor
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Priorleaf Tobacco
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SS. No. 1
Southworth and Hartman
Kenora
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Board of
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H. W. Goodfellow
S.S. No. 5
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Gordon Stoughton
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Oxdrift
Quebec
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S.S. No. 11
Amaranth
Vern Pacey
R.R. 1
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Fort William
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A. J. Perkins
Cardiff
S.S. No. 4
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Highland Grove
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Dalhousie
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Snow Road
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