What your doctor hears with his stethoscope
A historical overview of the stethoscope's use in diagnosis, describing heart and lung sounds, the discovery by Laennec, evolution of chest pieces, and how auscultation informs normal versus abnormal heart murmurs, with notes on phonocardiography and modern teaching tools.
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Laennec
Funny female reasoning and welfare paradoxes in Canada
A Winnipeg sourced column mocks welfare rules that allow fraud and compel participation. It notes a carpenter collecting unemployment while self employed and a man fined for avoiding hospital insurance. The piece jokes at women’s muddled thinking and riffs on social security taxes affecting Burmese women cigar rollers.
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Winnipeg
Burma
Eigar
Wrong tint dispute ends with Beverly Hills shop win
A Los Angeles woman Selma Kennedy sued a Beverly Hills beauty shop over hair tint that turned orange instead of red. She claimed $5,000 restitution but the jury found for the shop after reviewing a color photo showing the tint matched the requested shade.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Selma Kennedy
Beverly Hills
Tips on raising African violets in home care
Advice from horticulturists on Saint paulia care. Keep violets warm with 65 68 F nights and 75 78 F days, use bright diffused light, avoid cold water and direct sun, water with warm water and occasionally rinse top soil to remove salts, aim for 800 to 1260 foot candles of light with a diffused canopy.
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Africa
Ontario Department of Agriculture
Producing Owl Wells in Western Canada July 1960
The count of producing oil wells in western Canada reached about 13 500 as of July 1960, reflecting sustained activity in the region's oil industry.
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Western
Canada
Easy Sew Duster Pattern Printed by Misses’ Sizes 12 14
Start your day with a simple duster using print or check fabric or a drip-dry blend. Print Pattern 4637 offers Misses’ sizes 12 through 20 with size 16 requiring 34 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 50 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Toronto for pattern.
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Alainy
Anne Adams
Department P.P.L
Front Street. W
Toronto
Revival of cussing seen as cure for daily irritations
A British doctor argues cussing can ease minor life annoyances while noting it need not be sacr religious. Dr Casson links chronic ill temper to lifelong insecurities, panic, and disrupted upbringing, suggesting self awareness helps but urges restraint for those missing the last bus with a simple "darn it."
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F. R. C. Casson
Away With Souffle A Light Orange Pudding Recipe
This airy orange pudding is easy to assemble using fine bread crumbs evaporated milk and a meringue folded in after the pudding is prepared. Sugar lemon and orange rind give a bright flavor. Best served warm with pouring cream though leftovers suit cold serving.
Baked Orange Souffle Pudding Method Card
A vintage kitchen note details a baked orange souffle pudding for five to six, with eggs separated, orange rind, juice, evaporated milk, bread crumbs, and a soft-peak meringue folded in. It instructs baking in a water bath at 300 F for about 45 minutes and serving with pouring cream.
Pressure points and first aid training notes
The article explains several surface arteries and how finger pressure can control or stop severe bleeding to prevent death. It emphasizes the need for everyone to know these emergency techniques until medical aid arrives, as taught in the St John Ambulance first aid course.
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St. John Ambulance
China to Cut Rice Exports to Singapore Significantly
Singa pore Rice Importers Association says China will slash rice shipments to Singapore by more than half this year. Last year China sent 30 000 tons to Singapore amid ongoing drought hitting about 148 000 000 acres of land.
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China
Singapore
Yee Mei
Singa
Taipore Rice Importers Association
Communist
FWIC notes expand into the North and overseas ties
The Federated Women's Institutes of Canada extends its home improvement mission to the North with Mrs. Wm Hough leading outreach from Haines Junction to Fort Smith Yellowknife and Inuvik. New branches form at Discovery Fort McPherson Fort Providence and Inuvik while funds support Lanka Mahila Samiti in Ceylon to build and equip rural centres.
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Wm. Hough
Yukon
Haines Junction
FWIC
Department of Northern Affairs
Ars. Hough
Women’s Institutes
McKenzie Basin
Lanka Mahila Samiti
Women's Institutes of Ceylon
Mary Rutnam
Kadanela
Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada
All-electric apartment house under construction in Los Angeles
The world's largest all electric apartment building rises in Los Angeles California with 144 deluxe units. The heating and appliances contract totals 300000 dollars for heat pumps cooling and heating the structure.
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Los Angeles
Cailf
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