Physician Finds Malady He Could Not Diagnose Old Book
A New York physician puzzled by a disease affecting several patients found a description in Bernardino Ramazzini’s 1700 treatise Diseases of Tradesmen. The work linked hazards to metal workers painters and other trades and noted protective measures. Ramazzini’s ideas prefigured modern industrial health practices and ongoing wage and safety reforms.
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Logan Clendening
M. D
New York
Bernardino Ramazzini
Ramazin
Ramazzin
Spanish Stew and Apple Grape Pie In Household Hints
Mrs Mary Morton shares recipes for Spanish Stew using lamb onions tomatoes peppers and rice with peas and corn and a dessert of apple and grape pie made by cooking pulp seeding and fortifying with flour sugar and butter under pastry bake until golden. The notes describe step by step browning and simmering times and crust options.
Bodice Is Formal For All Day Town Suit
A white satin bodice suit designed for day wear, suitable for shopping and dining, with a gathered short jacket and Persian lamb trim. The outfit includes a belt-like waist and a small hat, featuring sleeve fullness and formal evening versatility.
Culinary Tips From A Fanciful Page
A quirky collection of kitchen hints on handling marshmallows with flour, slicing lightly damp bread for tiny sandwiches, washing dishes in cold water, and assembling shrimp and pear lettuce salads with mayo. It notes drying mint for off season use and keeping lettuce crisp with a wet cloth, though some phrases are unclear.
New Mode in Hats Lets Smart Women Match Mood to Style
A fashion column outlines diverse hat styles for women, highlighting the shift from plain "Lady Lou" shapes to modern designs. It spotlights the daguerreotype hat, Catharine of Russia influence, Tyrolean variants, and marine lace textures, noting Greta Garbo and the film Christina as style signals.
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Milady
Greta Garbo
Christina
Cache
Boy Friend Steals Cash From Girl's Pocketbook
Virginia Lee offers advice to a reader named Sis about a young college boyfriend who pockets her money at dances and in his car. The column suggests calm discussion to uncover reasons, considers family and age implications, and advises prioritizing character over money while exploring a cautious, age-appropriate relationship.
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Virginia Lee
Sis
Style Whimsies For Hair Bows And Gift Sachets
The article notes the revival of long bob lengths and old fashioned hair bows with bright ribbons matching printed cotton dresses. It highlights sachets and petticoats returning to favor, and suggests gifts like Gibson shoulders and dicscles as Christmas offerings.
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Gibson
Garbo Feet Beauty Declares Chiropodist Opinion
A Texas chiropodist society member says Garbo has the most beautiful feet in Hollywood. The piece extols proper shoe fit to preserve facial beauty and youthful poise, warns against tight footwear, and offers a home foot care recipe with quince seed lotion.
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Gladys Glad
America
Great Garbo
Texas Chiropodist Society
Ln Garbo
Hollywood
Garbo
Answers to queries on makeup tips and hand drying
A reader suggests a soft ochre powder with bright lip color and dark brown eyeshadow to suit coloring. A second tip advises drying hands with driving strokes toward the wrists for smoother results.
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Makeun _ BDorehy
Mra. P. D
Poems That Live Addressed to a Young Lady
A brief verse tribute to a virtuous maiden, describing a silent, chaste, and graceful figure moving through a glade. The speaker likens her influence to a stream that reflects heaven and blesses all she encounters, drawing on Cowper's imagery of purity and destiny.
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William Cowper
Gardening guide warns iris blight and rot prevention
The article explains autumn checks for iris leaf blight across varieties like Iris King and May Queen. It describes signs of infection, such as brown leaf tips and rotted rhizomes, and prescribes digging up clumps, removing rotten parts, dusting healthy rhizomes with sulfur, and replanting to prevent spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lent A. Willamson
Nine Wells
Mary Garden
Grown-ups embarrass small boy
Dr Garry C Myers of Cleveland College Western Reserve University discusses how adults often embarrass a young boy missing two front teeth. He notes many well-educated adults say tactless remarks and urges parents to model refinement toward children. He cites the Children’s Bureau pamphlet and offers two more Dr Myers items by mail.
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Garry C. Myers
Cleveland College
Western Reserve University
Ted
Garry C.myers
Children’s Bureau
Washington, D. C
Pattern Making Instructions For Cardboard Atoll Display
The text describes assembling a display pattern by laying down matting and paper, pressing edges to form a crease, cutting out the shape, and unfolding a prepared template. The steps imply careful alignment and tracing to create a finished pattern for an atoll themed exhibit.
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Clendening
Gogan Clendening
Sally
Mrs. Mary Morton
Cade
Susan Barden
Central Presse
Dache
Mart Ellen
Short
Giels
Cate
Irte
Dean Halliday
Gentral Press Garden
Eacpert
Myers
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