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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1938
Page
8
A mother frets over her sixteen year old daughter’s first love and an offer to live with the fiancé’s family for two years. The adviser urges keeping the girl in school, exploring other friendships, and developing judgment before marriage.
Column notes potential returns in sports with Max Baer’s decisive win over Tommy Farr and the Chicago Cubs aiming to rebound to win the National League pennant after prior late-season fades.
Detroit pitcher Schoolboy Rowe pledges to lift the Tigers to the pennant with help from the staff. Dizzy Dean says he can still be baseball’s greatest pitcher and may join Branch Rickey’s ranks. Max Schmeling targets Joe Louis’s heavyweight title, with fans backing huge bets. Louis faces Schmeling again after a muted set of tune-up bouts, needing a stronger showing to stay atop the division. Cubs optimism grows as Tony Lazzeri touts a stronger, man-for-man roster.
The National Association of Basketball Coaches in Chicago approved rule changes to slow the sport’s pace. College play may use five time outs and optional four ten minute periods. high schools adopt sudden death overtime for ties and new timing rules. Substitutions after a goal are paused until play resumes. The out of bounds margin increases to four feet and the three second rule loosens for players without the ball.
The piece quotes Al Schacht arguing Walter Johnson was unmatched for fast pitches, comparing him to legends like Smoky Joe Wood and Lefty Grove. It notes Schacht’s long practice with teams and his belief Johnson’s speed remains un surpassed, while recounting other sports and baseball figures and a dental health feature by C Houston Goudiss.
The column explains that natural vitamin D is scarce in foods but irradiated foods or those with added vitamin D concentrate retain it through ordinary cooking. It also clarifies rye and white bread have similar calories per slice and that sulfur dioxide used to bleach dried fruit remains harmless.
Readers may write or postcard inquiries to C Houston Goudiss at his Experimental Kitchen Laboratory New York City for questions on foods diet nutrition and health and personal hygiene. Address 6 East Thirty-ninth Street New York City.
A social worker visits night watchman Terence Shea at home and asks about his wages. He explains he makes fifteen dollars a week and saves the surplus in barrels, mostly sugar barrels, for his family of five. When barrels aren’t available he uses flour barrels.
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