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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
12
An old surgeon recalls a case of a young man who lost his right arm in a premature blast. The patient stayed cheerful, noting he would have been worse off losing his left arm were he left handed, a paradoxical reason for gratitude.
A 19th or early 20th century health note cites Dr George M Kober of Georgetown University stating life expectancy rose from about 18–20 years in the 16th century to about 40 today. Improved air, water sanitation, sewers and public supplies cut city mortality in half over 40 years. It advises drinking distilled water between meals to increase life and powers.
Analysis notes the poem's impact on English society highlighting child labor in factories and coal mines. It cites Browning’s call to action through lines about children weeping, exhausted youths, and the relentless iron wheels grinding down their spirits. Published reflections on the poem’s moral force and social critique.
Charles Pullis a Lackawanna railroad expert suffered a skull fracture for twenty two years without knowing it. Surgeons at Christ Hospital Jersey City found a frontal bone break pressing on the brain and performed an operation. Pullis likely to recover. His brother Frank Pullis recalls a stone blow to his head at age eight.
Dr. Rudolf Herzog of the University of Tubingen reports the discovery after three years of Greek archaeology work. The Temple of Aesculapius on Cos measures 30 by 17 yards, built of white marble with many columns. A later Christian church sits at its center, an altar with a cross at its base found near the staircase, and inscriptions plus a marble sculpture depicting health and a snake symbolizing medical science were uncovered.
Captain Alfred G. Rigler of Carnton Ohio credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with curing a long standing kidney complaint and backache after physicians failed. He describes severe pain similar to knife thrusts, urinary weakness, and sleepless nights, then relief after treatment. Free trials offered by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. price 50 cents per box.
In Ottumwa Iowa a quiet citizen’s small act alters the course of history. A brother’s office encounters a discouraged job seeker, a stenographer named Cortelyou. He is sent to the post office department and lands the job immediately, beginning a rapid ascent to a future cabinet post.
The tale of an unlettered laborer in Parral who found a mine and became rich is compared to a Mexican millionaire myth. The dispatch from Mexico notes such stories overstate wealth and overlook Mexico's real internal debt and bond obligations held abroad.
In the Fifty seventh Congress begun in March 1901, twelve members died, three resigned, and two were unseated by contests, totaling seventeen changes in under two years. This is the record for term changes in Congress. Defiance Starch promises best results for starching with no-cook savings. A man is not in a sound condition when he cannot raise money.
A concise line notes that certain men struggle to stay silent when they have nothing meaningful to contribute.
Catholic Sisters praise Peruna for catarrh and throat relief in a Detroit letter to Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio. Congressman Meekison of Napoleon Ohio reports benefiting from its use for long standing head catarrh. Dr Hartman notes his role in formulating Peruna and offers free medical advice upon request.
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