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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
6
Alice R Quimby argues energy saving applies to homes as in factories. The piece notes housekeepers waste effort in daily chores and suggests studying tasks to reduce work, citing egg beating as an example of unnecessary motion and tools that save time.
Practical guidance on reducing effort in home tasks by securing bowls and mixers, using clamps, long handled tools, and proper layouts. Advice covers shelling peas, dustpans, dishwashing flow, frying doughnuts, washing potatoes, and cleaning with scrubbing brushes to save energy and avoid fatigue.
A nurse who blends entertainment with care can improve outcomes for child patients. Alice Jane Drew RN shares methods like playful explanations of medical tools, incentives to drink milk, and engaging activities to reduce fear and resistance, suggesting cheerful engagement boosts recovery chances and patient happiness.
A historic note on fruit as a healing aid cites Dr. Muller praising fruit juices to curb inflammation and poison, outlining a progression from fruit juices for acute stages to grated apples and almond cream as digestion improves, including suggested fruits and almond preparations.
A historical note links severe tooth decay to a range of harms including pain sleeplessness and mental impairment. It cites a cited case of a well bred young man whose dental decay is hinted as contributing to deteriorated behavior and crime leading to reform school.
The subject, once bright and honest, began stealing at sixteen and fell into repeated robberies. He showed erratic behavior at home, including sleeping on bare springs. Oral examination revealed impacted wisdom teeth with abscesses. their removal alleviated his symptoms and he fully recovered.
A historical tip advises keeping white enamel ware bright by boiling utensils in a strong baking soda and rain water solution. The method claims to restore whiteness to enamel pieces.
The article notes dust gathers in corners under furniture and radiators. It recommends using a dish mop from ten cent stores to clean these hard to reach areas effectively.
The guide advises sanding wood with fine grit for a smooth finish and using soft high quality brushes to prevent streaking as varnish dries. It emphasizes preparation steps before applying varnish to furniture.
A home remedy suggests soaking a muddy white skirt in a solution of sour milk and water overnight, then washing as usual. The process is said to make the fabric wash more easily and appear whiter.
Guidance on preserving bread using an earthenware pan with a B cover. The pan should be scalded weekly and then dried carefully to maintain quality and sanitation.
Cleaning the Bean Pot describes washing by filling with cold water adding washing powder, covering, boiling to ease subsequent cleaning.
A nurse in a West general hospital laments lacking incubators. A doctor improvises a crude incubator at a farm house using dish pans warm water and a kerosene lamp. The setup maintains 104 degrees and saves a newborn's life.
A detailed explanation of green-stick fractures in children, how soft developing bones bend rather than snap, and the long term risks if left untreated. It compares brittle adult bones to pliable pediatric bones and advises medical checkups after a bad fall.
An account explains the large intestine as a nonessential tube harboring bacteria and waste. It notes the cecum and appendix as vestigial, contrasts digestion with the stomach and small intestine, and cites animals with long intestines as running mammals and birds with fast locomotion.
The piece notes Germany saved ten million dollars in a year by selling coal by-products and argues the United States wastes by producing similar items in far larger quantities but at lower efficiency. It highlights solvents, dyes, tar, perfumes, carbolic acid, varnishes, drugs, and cyanides among by-products and cites low use of workable by-products from coal and coal tar.
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