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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1938
Page
3
Edward W. Pickard surveys the heated debate over socialized medicine, government subsidies, and AMA opposition. Roosevelt's health conference splits lawmakers and doctors as antitrust actions loom against the AMA amid a wave of public health reform talk.
A Weather Service briefing explains average five Atlantic hurricanes form yearly near tropical origins and move toward southeastern and gulf states. It notes one typically causes major damage, cites Galveston 1900 as stark example, and compares hurricanes to typhoons with rotation directions by hemisphere. It also covers record rainfall, wind speeds, and energy of storms.
Providence A I The Milky Way is thicker than a flat disk. Dr Harlow Shapley of Harvard College Observatory said at Brown University that a 2300 star Cepheid survey shows the galaxy is surrounded by a sparse halo similar to Andromeda. BE Virginis is about 140000 light years from the galactic plane.
Nether lands authorities in Java face trouble with local beliefs affecting conservation. Malays think children can acquire bird traits by eating them, feeding king-crows and shrikes to infants to create liveliness. Dull children are fed fan-tailed flycatchers. Pets cause large bird losses as children are given young storks bulbuls pigeons and starlings for play.
San Francisco report by Jane Stafford notes Dra. Franz Alexander and Leon J. Saul describe four cases where long suppressed hostility to a domineering mother led to rising blood pressure. The study links inner rage to arterial damage and suggests early psychiatric treatment to prevent severe hypertension.
Washington report by H. G. Deignan of the Smithsonian notes Siamese birds migrate in three forms besides the usual northward movement. A water migration brings vast water birds to higher land with the rainy season. A food migration follows fruiting trees like mangoes and figs as individual birds scout and lead flocks.
NEW YORK. The Geological Society of America reports a new lost continent in northern Mexico found by Dr. Lewis B. Kellum and Dr. Ralph Imlay of the University of Michigan. Indications of a lost ocean separated North and South America 100 million years ago. The land lay southwest from Texas into central Mexico with a bear paw shape. Crumpled Permian rocks formed the clues, while reports of giant bones and bones of little chickens emerge as clues for further study.
The Washington meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers described a new transformer design as the first major change since its invention over 50 years ago. The core is wound through the coils, producing a cheaper, smaller and more efficient device than existing types.
Traces of wood-boring insects found in Petrified Forest logs in Arizona. National Park Service naturalist M. W. Walker identifies ancient parallels to modern tree pest activity.
The piece quotes Elizabeth James on memory and reading about Dr Axel Munthe from The Story of San Michele. It highlights Munthe’s affection for animals and his critique of animal confinement in zoos, noting his belief that hunting degrades civilization and his act of purchasing Capri to preserve wildlife habitat.
Dr. Munthe interprets his book in the American edition preface to The Story of San Michele. He rebuts reviewers who labeled his work as memoir or autobiography and explains his aim to present life and listen to its voice rather than craft a conventional self portrait.
A reviewer discusses Axel Munthe and The Story of San Michele, citing vivid chapters on cruelty to birds, mixed coffins, and encounters with Death. The piece notes Munthe's medical career in France, Norway, and Naples, and praises the book’s rich narrative, suggesting it as enduring reading for curious minds.
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