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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1922
Page
7
Theodore Roosevelt quotes urge community interest in health programs and deflect reliance on authorities. Parents should fix children’s physical defects before school returns and ensure outdoor activity. Public health nurses offer guidance on clinics and services. Vacation camps open in June. parents urged to enroll children for healthful summer.
A historical note claims Norse Vikings settled in a southern Jugo Slavia valley, intermarried with Slovenian speakers, and produced Vend a hybrid tongue spoken by later descendants in the region. The tale traces language origins to a fertile valley 100 miles wide where Norse and Slav speech merged.
Dr Charles Ballance notes in the London Lancet that ancient civilizations used narcotic draughts for painless surgery. He cites Chinese tradition and Heatha the surgeon of the third century AD performing amputations and trephinations with anesthesia. Browne recalls two Persian manuscript cases: Aristotle and Sarnab used drugs to render a patient unconscious during skull trephination, and a Caesarean section was later performed.
The Masai are depicted as the most warlike and wealthiest native tribe, famed for raiding neighboring groups and controlling vast cattle herds. They supposedly number about 50,000, live on meat, scorn earth grown foods, and drink ox blood sometimes mixed with milk.
Widespread belief in a single missing link fades as palaeontologists acknowledge no definitive fossil connection. The debate returns to Darwin era questions about origin, with parallel evolution accepted and emphasis on choosing one's own ancestral line. W H Ballou notes Agassiz’s multiple origins theory remains a historical touchstone.
In Dalmatia fishermen dye nets brown and green, deter fish from white nets and lure them into colored meshes. The dyes come from plant bark extracts, soak into nets, and prove fast against water and sunlight.
The article recalls Coventry England where locals once shunned soldiers, forbidding intercourse with the garrison and isolating troops in barracks. It notes historic Coventry crafts such as watchmaking and silk weaving, then bicycle manufacturing, and now a center of the automobile industry.
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