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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1936
Page
8
Dr Logan Clendening traces eye evolution from a light sensitive spot to the vertebrate lens and notes how different life needs shaped vision. Anableps the four eyed fish, birds with long sight, grazing animals with horizontal slits, and the cat with a vertical slit show adaptations for air, water, food, and predators. The piece concludes that the human eye best fits human life.
This note explains lace bug damage to rhododendrons and mountain laurels, with yellow or brown leaf spotting, worse in sun. It describes the adult insect about one-eighth inch long, and suggests nicotine sulphate spray directed to the undersides of leaves to control the pest.
Dr Garry C Myers outlines how teachers and parents can support slow learners who struggle with book learning. He advocates ungraded or special classes focusing on hands on work and basic skills, guided by school psychologists, with parents urged to accept limited learning capacity and avoid false hope.
A Pennsylvania reader writes Worth Cheney about heart and lung illness and nights of loneliness in bed. The column offers encouragement, sharing a story of a woman invalid with infantile paralysis who regained health through resilience, air, food, and love, urging the reader to carry on.
A compact meditation on fleeting beauty and art. The speaker vows his song become a flower and an air, brief yet vivid, living in the memory as beauty fades. It contrasts love, scent, color, and music with the ephemeral nature of existence.
The page presents a family menu with roast pork and sides, plus two main recipes: a date cake and a spiced pickle mix. The cake combines butter, brown sugar, eggs, dates and spices, baked in a tube pan, while the pickle method covers onions cucumbers peppers and a vinegar brine, sealed in jars for four pints.
A compact description of how a mixed grill is prepared by broiling including lamb chop sausages sweet breads and ground meat patties wrapped with bacon. It notes broiling times depend on temperature and meat thickness and recommends a moderately low temperature for best results. Watermelon Chowchow rind cucumber content appears as a listed ingredient.
A simple casserole layers frankfurters sliced lengthwise between cooked lima beans. Dot with butter and bake until thoroughly heated through for a hearty, mid century style dish.
A reader asks how to win back a husband who left for another woman and seeks a divorce. The columnist urges court action for non support, parental influence, and recognizing duty to wife and baby, noting his lack of responsibility and possible inherited or trained faults.
Gladys Glad profiles Claire Trevor, alias Americas Most Famous Beauty, detailing home beauty tactics. Trevor champions plain remedies like castor oil mineral oil vinegar milk eggs and witch hazel plus skin care routines. She stresses health diet water air exercise and regular light treatments such as milk facial and egg white facial for special engagements.
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