Vitamin D treatment aids severe arthritis, study reports
The Industrial Medicine study by Snyder Squires and Forster reports 250 patients with crippling arthritis receiving huge daily amounts of Vitamin D via Ertron. In two to three years, 22 of 50 rated good or excellent, eight poor, others fair or undetermined. Some patients returned to work, golf, or even complete recovery. No serious toxicity from Ertron 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 How Can I By Anne Ashley
A Q and A style excerpt offering home care tips. It covers cleaning woodwork with a vinegar kerosene water mix and cautions on varnish, washing brushes with hot soda water, preventing sticky waxed floors, repelling mosquitoes with kerosene, and bleaching yellowed white silk using hyposulphite of soda with repeated dipping and rinsing.
Plea For Trees Highlighting Elm Value And Growth
An eminent entomologist notes fifty elms recently sold at three thousand dollars each with many worth five thousand, urging owners to plant and protect trees for both cash value and non monetary worth. The Guelph Mercury emphasizes simple steps to foster growth and curb destruction. Mounted mail carriers provided Amsterdam with a pony express system as early as 1400.
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Guelph Mercury
Amsterdam
Have You Heard in Courtship and Balance Scene
Jones laments smoothing in the bank vanished after meeting your daughter. Father counsels that love costs. Jones jokes that love makes the world go around and loses his balance. A doctor notes consulting hours from 6 to 7 p.m. The patient ends with a doubt about the dog.
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Jones
Witty exchanged lines reveal domestic budget sparks
A collection of humorous exchanges highlights marriage economics and miscommunications. A professor admires a vase tied to wedding anniversaries while a clerk requests an afternoon off to shop with his wife. The boss refuses, provoking a witty bargain about saving money and cooking.
Australians Held in Japan Prisoner of War Figures
Japanese authorities informed the International Red Cross that 10,166 Australian soldiers are held as prisoners of war, including 898 officers. An unconfirmed Tokyo radiocast cited 8,321 more Australians as missing, while 9,995 others, including 284 officers, are listed as missing.
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International Red Cross
Geneva
Francis Forde
Tokyo
Forde
Cook Turns Rice and Turnips Into Daily Flavor
Patrick Fitzgerald told the Royal Geographical Society about a cook in China who could craft two meals daily from rice and turnips for five days, delivering a different flavor each time. The anecdote suggests versatile, economical cooking.
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Lord Woolton
Patrick Fitzgerald
Royal Geographical Society
China
Modern Etiquette Q and A on Invitations and Manners
Roberta Lee answers six etiquette questions on wedding invitations addressing families guests sharing meals escort outings and gloves. Key points cover separate invitations for each child whether to offer a hostess handshake and whether guests may take second helpings.
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George L. Smith
Grace Wilson
Estimated ammunition use in a minute and Napoleonic day
The estimate compares air force ammunition in one minute to Napoleon era consumption in a day. It suggests 50 fighting planes could fire about 300000 rounds per minute, equivalent to what 10000 soldiers might burn in a single day.
A General’s Banquet Banter on Military Life
At a City of London banquet a Marlborough general rebukes a talkative alderman who presses him for details of soldier life. The general jokes that duty is brief and fighting occupies only a few hours, leaving ample time afterward.
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Marlborough
London
Removing Hi-test Gas Dangerous Work
Merseyside firemen worked two days in a ship hold to pump out 1 500 gallons of high octane aviation spirit leaking from damaged containers. They used hand pumps to move the fluid into 45 gallon drums, with strict supervision to prevent intoxication from fumes and oxygen apparatus ready for rescue.
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Merseyside
Men Withdraw From Vapour Teeming Vessel
Sailors evacuated a ship when petrol air explosive proportions were suspected dangerous. While other vessels passed, all men were withdrawn from the vapour tainted ship to avoid a potential spark from funnels triggering an explosion.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chungking
Japan
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Sky’s Drug Store
Davenport Road
Uxbridge Ave
Lydia E. Pinkham
John
Roberta Lee
Grace Jones
Jones Wilson
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Yonge Street
Mount Pleasant Road
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John N., Hamilton, “Ont
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Hatziec
B.C
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Alien Electric Company
Dufferin Street
Church Village School
Stratford
Wm. Douglas
St. Pauls
Ontario
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R.red
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Swift Current
Saskatchewan
Goodison Thresher
New Condition
Rumley Tractor
J. Everton
Roselawn
Ottawa
Denman Drug Store
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Amherstburg
R.R. 8
Robertson
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Dixon
Munro’s
Elgin, Itawa
Groves Memorial Hospital
Fergus, Ont
Fetherstonhaugh & Company Patent Solicitors
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Queen St. E
Logan
Photography
Imperial Photo Service
Lorsato
Outremont
Star
Star Snapshot Service
Basel
Montreal
P.O
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St. Clair East
Evbery
Elgin
Mulveney
Virginia
Burley, Zimmer
Prior
Ruthven Tobacco Exchange
Ruthven, Ont
Dinorwic
S.S. No. 1
Southworth and Hartman
Kenora
R. Zoccolo
Board of
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Redditt
Ont
H. W. Goodfellow
Reas
S.S. No. 5
Calabogie
Gordon Stoughton
Eh No
Aubrey
E. F. Griffiths
Oxdrift
Quebec
Joliette
W. Hogg
Sec.- Treas
Que
Balfour
Freeman Sanders
Sec.-Treas
Chelmsford
S.S. No. 11
Amaranth
Vern Pacey
R.R. 1
Shelburne
Fort William
Paipoonge
Bert William
A. J. Perkins
Sec.Treas
R.R
Cardiff
S.S
No. 4
Goldie Watson
Highland Grove
Low
Basil J. McGoey
Sec
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Martindale
Sis
Dalhousie
John Gemmill
Snow Road
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