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Newspaper
The Canton Repository
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1951
Page
14
A column notes peritonitis, once deadly, is now rare due to sulfa and penicillin therapies and safer surgery. It explains the peritoneum lines the abdominal cavity and outlines common causes such as appendix rupture and stomach ulcers. Prevention and advances have greatly improved survival compared with twenty years ago.
Two German climbers Andre Hackmair and Herman Koellemsberger reached the 14020 foot north face of Grandes Jorasses in the Mont Blanc area after a five day entrapment due to a snowstorm. They suffered frostbite and were evacuated to a veterans' hospital in Chamonix as search efforts continued with planes and ground teams.
In Chicago on August 8 a crowd of 5000 witnessed 75 police firing over 60 shots to kill a former convict who barricaded himself in a south side apartment. The slain man Madison Lowry alias Lawrence Frame 27 a Negro railroad track worker. Police responded to a shooting report and$:tear gas$ used before breaching the apartment and fatally shooting him.
A 1,200 acre Kern County fire is now controlled and a Santa Susana fire near Ventura was to be quelled after 48 hours. In Grand Forks British Columbia four thousand workers left jobs to fight three fires east of the city, threatening Fife along the Kettle Valley line. One fire spread across Santa Rosa Creek covering 1,200 acres as loggers volunteers and conscriptees battled fires.
Two small logging camps were burned and a third threatened as wildfires rage in British Columbia. The blazes began five days ago and are believed to have been started by berry pickers, authorities say.
Promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as relief for monthly cramps headaches backaches and fatigue. Doctors tests claim complete or striking relief in about three of four cases and urge women to try the remedy to reduce nervousness tension and weakness.
Robertsville Grangers plan a Friday 6 30 p m picnic supper at the grange hall with Mrs George Lotzer as program committee chair. A TB X ray mobile will be on site from 7 to 9 offering free X rays. All grangers must be X rayed before working at the grange refreshment stand at the Stark County fair.
A modern Indian legend states a goddess, disappointed by wet logs she could not cook with, transformed the logs into stone, accounting for the petrified forests of Arizona. The tale blends myth with the region’s natural wonders, linking ancient belief to geological history.
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