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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1925
Page
5
Scientists seek a cure for cancer by studying its nature in animal specimens. Experiments on rats and mice indicate certain tar induces cancerous formations within months, and cancers appeared in stomachs after consuming cockroaches carrying a worm. Ongoing work aims to improve treatments while the search continues.
The article describes Saint Leonard as a French nobleman turned monk who founded a monastery at St. Leonard le Noblat after 509. He is celebrated for charity to prisoners and miracles of deliverance attributed to him, with his feast aligning to the Michaelmas term when writs returnable.
A humorous notice recounts a husband enlisting the local paper to warn the man who took his wife. He offers to supply liniments bandages healing salves absorbent cotton iodine sleeping powders and crutches at rock bottom prices in a pointed taunt toward his rival.
Kansas State Agricultural College veterinarians Dr B J Frick and Dr John Bullard report ultraviolet light from quartz mercury vapor lamps speeds recovery in canine distemper and eczema cases. A bull terrier healed in five days with daily 20 minute exposure, while untreated dogs died. Wounds show rapid healing and reduced pus. poultry studies also show increased egg production and hatchability.
Pasadena notes Castle Rosamond silent after Baroness Rosa von Zimmerman death in 1917 and wartime seizure by the alien property custodian. The 40 room estate, built in 1917 for about $1,000,000, traces a German baroness’s fortunes and a later legal battle over vast Russian securities and a bequest to sisters and an adopted daughter.
An imposing memorial will be erected on the Tannenberg battlefield near Koenigsberg to commemorate the Hindenburg victory. Proposed by brothers Walter and Johannes Krueger, the octagonal wall surrounds the existing monument with eight 49 foot towers at corners and a memorial hall for each regiment. Relic museums will occupy seven ground floors.
A reflective quote marks the birth of teamwork noting that two people rolling a heavier stone together surpasses one person alone. It frames cooperation as a foundational idea attributed to Calvin Coolidge.
Edwin Fairfax Naulty of New York, long studying earth movements, warned that Hawaii is gradually rising and could, within a generation, become a high and dry territory as large as Japan. His prediction followed recent seismic disturbances and added to public discussion of Pacific tectonics.
In a Yorkshire Post piece a lord answers a lord chancellor in a j ilny archaic inquiry about a Statute of Lunacy. Asked how many feet a sheep has the earl distinguishes live from dead sheep stating a live sheep has four legs while a dead sheep has two legs of mutton.
A London observer claims footballers become bald later in life and that swimmers share this trend while tennis and cricket players do not. The remark frames sports-related hair loss as a common later development among certain athletes.
The article previews the Chicago Roundup and World's Championship Rodeo starting August 15 in which cowboys and cowgirls compete for riding bulldogging and roping titles. Tex Austin, noted rodeo organizer, will direct the nine day event bringing frontier life to the metropolis.
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