Snakes and Snake Oil Through Medical History
A wide array of historical snake remedies and lore spans ancient to modern times. From the brazen serpent healing in desert lore to 19th century viper preparations and notorious snake oil panaceas, the piece traces medical uses, myths, and dubious cures across cultures and ages. Historical notes cite Pope on snakes alive, Chinese pharmacopeia, French remedies, and London plague era snakeries.
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New York
Aesculapius
Clifford H. Pope
Viking Press
America
France
London
Madame de Sevigne
M. de Grignan
African Women and Secret Societies Protect Rights
Philadelphia report details Sherbro women forming the Bondo society as a female counterpart to the Poro. H. A. Hall presented findings from American Philosophical Society and University of Pennsylvania museum study in British West Africa. The Bondo advocates women’s rights and seclusion rites during initiation in the Bondo Bush.
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Philadelphia
Sierra Leone
British West Africa
H. A. Hall
American Philosophical Society
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
Hall
Mr. Hall
Bondo
Curare Sparks Knightly Dual Personalities Study
In a University of Illinois lab, E A Culler described experiments showing curare can create a second personality in dogs. Learning in one personality is forgotten in the other, with actions shifting to subcortical brain levels under curare influence and erased when returning to the normal state.
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Philadelphia
University of Illinois
E. A. Culler
American Philosophical Society
Phosphorus Now Made and Shipped in Tank Car Lots
New method uses electric furnaces to produce elemental phosphorus from calcium phosphate, sand, and coke. Process requires inert or reducing atmospheres. purified phosphorus is sealed in steel drums or tank cars for shipment to chemical plants for diverse uses including baking, agriculture, and defense. The Monsanto Chemical Company received a Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering award for this development.
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New York
Monsanto Chemical Company
Streamlined Highways Urged by Road Experts
Washington session of the highway research board of the National Research council urged streamlining America's highways to improve safety and reduce long term maintenance costs. Highway engineers cited broad shoulders, erosion control, and grassy slopes as fixes and noted bare ditches are costly and hazardous to motorists.
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Washington
America
Highway Research Board
National Research Council
Joint Committee On
United States
H. J. Neale
Neale
How To Style Draperies With Stiffened Heading Canvas
Drapery care details explain stiffening the top with heading canvas for French headings. Instructions cover cutting depth four to six inches, sewing plaits starting two inches down, and attaching rings on the back. Also notes Mrs Spears Sew ing book available for 25 cents by mail from Chicago.
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Spears
South Desplaines St
Chicago
Illinois
Shrimp Creole for Sunday Night Supper
Shrimp Creole makes a convenient Sunday supper, preparing ahead and reheating. Recipe lists onions celery tomatoes peas flour shortening vinegar sugar salt shrimp powder hot water and rice. serves with hot rice. MARJORIE H. BLACK.
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Marjorie H. Black
Today and Now in the Regeneracy of Life
The passage urges living in the present moment, treating today as the raw material for a better life. It emphasizes using the brain to transform today’s anxieties and impediments into a tissue of life that is comely, not postponing growth or happiness.
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Lydia EB. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia
Hopeful Impulse Inspires Better Traditions
A reflective quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson emphasizes that every joyful heart leaves a hopeful impulse behind, contributing to a kinder tradition in humanity.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Household Tips from a Fortnight Magazine Article
Tips on unrolling friction tape without tearing edges balancing furniture for harmony and lightness using alarms to time cakes washing walls with flour paste threading needles properly lightening clay soil for plants making non skid mantels by felt squares pruning and stuffing prunes with cream cheese for a salad winged with mayonnaise dressing and orange garnish
Dr Pierce Mavorite Prescription Tonic Aids Women For Decades
A historical note describes Dr Pierce s Mavorite Prescription as a tonic that has helped women of all ages for nearly seventy years, highlighting its long running use and advertised benefits.
Consider Your Strength and Its Limits, Horace Quote
A concise reflection on self awareness urging readers to measure their strength against their true abilities. The maxim emphasizes recognizing both capability and limits to act wisely.
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Horace
Notable presidents and their unconventional living histories
The text humorously notes that several presidents rarely settled, while others faced salary delays or lived in and commented on the White House. It lists Vilified figures like Van Buren, Taylor, Wilson, Roosevelt, Jackson, and Harding with quirky anecdotes about residence and career paths.
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Achary Taylor
Martin van Buren
Woodrow Wilson
Buckingham Palace
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Andrew Jackson
Florida
Warren G. Harding
United States Senate
Train versus auto legal clash over rail right of way
Collier's Weekly reports that the Canadian National Railway sues every financially responsible owner of a motor vehicle involved in a collision with its trains, contending trains have right of way, and it wins most cases.
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Canadian National Railways
Collier’s Weekly
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