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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1919
Page
3
Classifieds show sale notices for a 50x150 ft tobacco barn to be moved from premises within a week, plus listings of used furniture and various farm animals and equipment. Includes details for contact in New London and multiple towns, with prices and item conditions.
Physicians worldwide advocate an inside bath as more important than outside cleanliness arguing skin pores do not absorb impurities while bowels do. A daily drink of hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast is claimed to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels removing indigestible matter poisons and toxins. Those with bad breath coated tongue dull head or constipation are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate to prove the value of inside bathing.
The United States government forms a large corps of flight surgeons and physical directors to care for flyers in training and service. Flight surgeons lead medical fitness, rest, and recovery plans, with physical directors supervising recreation and training under command approval. They supervise candidate selection and stay in close touch with aviators in hospitals and on duty.
Miss Goldingham deputy commandant of the women police service spoke in Richmond on the growth of the force formed from wartime volunteers to aid refugees and youths. In 3.5 years about 1000 women have trained and gained appointments, policing 20 munition factories and supplying officers to 18 towns, with women sworn as constables in four.
Arthur Conan Doyle recalls passing a column of 900 prisoners near Peronne with Australians lining the causeway. He describes the captives as dull and oxlike, contrasting them with the debonair guards, noting a chilling, farcical mood in the roadside spectacle. A sharp clash of nations and fates underlines the scene.
After a full round of physical exams vaccinations and treatments at the Indianapolis Orphans Home a boy quips to his teacher that they will next be tested to see if they have any brains The remark reflects the era's terse humor about medical inspections and public health procedures in charitable institutions.
Rudolph Obrist-Doos of Switzerland develops leather from stretched animal bladders. Bladders are dried and processed by fulling and tanning to produce a smooth, pliant, waterproof material. Pieces can be pressed together with adhesive to form leather or leather substitutes of varying thickness.
The article notes the exhumation and reinterment of former Emperor Nicholas's body. It recalls Napoleon's remains in St. Helena then the Invalides, and Rameses the Great in Cairo with a heart in Paris. It also compares Columbus's traveling dead to historic voyages.
A dialogue from the Washington Star features Senator Sorghum admitting he brought down a political boss and hopes for no future boss. He concludes that to keep him down he must become the boss himself. The fragment implies hubris and power dynamics in political reform.
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