Bughouse Laboratory Grows Into Washington Field Museum
The Washington Field museum in North Carolina is run by local youths mostly from high school, evolving from a 1923 tent collection into a full museum with a park, donated materials, WPA labor, and a live animal collection. Guided by Miss Mary Shelburne, the youth curators study natural history and early Americana and are developing a small zoo.
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Frank Thone
New York
United States
Washington
N. C
Washington Field Museum
American Association of Museums
Bughouse Laboratory
Bughouse
WPA
Florida Had Wild Towns in Early Phosphate Days
Herbert D. Mendenhall of Tallahassee described Florida’s early phosphate era towns to the American Society of Civil Engineers. He cited Dunnellon as a pioneer boom town where frontier law prevailed with pistols and regular coroner’s inquests after weekend revelries.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Fla
Golden West
United States
Herbert D. Mendenhall
Tallahassee
American Society of Civil Engineers
Dunnellon
Nordic roots trace through Sweden since Stone Age
Sweden's Stone Age inhabitants are described as Nordic by archeologist Dr. Hanna Rydh of Uppsala University. She notes the oldest skull found in Sweden dates to about 6000 to 8000 B C and is long and narrow, typical of Nordic type, with only a few broad-headed migrants from Central Europe integrating into Stone Age Sweden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sweden
Hanna Rydh
University of Upsala
Rydh
Muscles Keep Working Madison Wisconsin Sleep Facts
Dr Edmund Jacobson of the Laboratory for Clinical Physiology Chicago told psychologists at the Midwestern Psychological Association meeting that sleep onset may involve rapid or gradual muscle relaxation while lips and jaw muscles can remain tense as shown by notable action currents.
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Madison
Wis
Edmund Jacobson
Laboratory For Clinical Physiology
Chicago
Midwestern Psychological Association
Jacobson
Why Rome Failed in Ancient Britain Shown by Digging
London based archaeologist Dr. R E M Wheeler argues Rome failed to Romanize Britain because its urban pattern and foreign crafts disrupted native life. Excavations at Maiden Castle and other sites show Britons retained rural economy while cities Britain adopted later. The early Roman city system collapsed within a century, with Romano British towns devolving into slums and no robust middle class forming.
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Emily C. Davis
London
England
Rome
Britain
R. E. M. Wheeler
London University
Maiden Castle
Doctor Wheeler
Wheeler
Molten Rock Destroys Early Geological Records
Dr E N Goddard of the US Geological Survey reports to the American Geophysical Union that molten rock rising to the surface destroyed Earth’s oldest geological records. He describes a 50 million year old event in the Eocene that fractured the crust near the site of Jimtown Colorado, with fragments of younger rocks preserved or altered within the intruding mass and illustrating the global cycle of rock formation and destruction.
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Washington
American Geophysical Union
E. N. Goddard
United States Geological Survey
Jimtown
Colo
Doctor Goddard
Mud Jacking Method of Mending Concrete Roads
Chicago surface irregularities from settlement of roadbeds can be repaired cheaply without tearing up paving. John W. Poulter of Milwaukee Wisconsin reports mud jacking, pumping mud and cement underneath settling concrete slabs, gaining popularity among road crews for its cost and efficiency.
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Chicago
John W. Poulter
Milwaukee
Wis
Moose Refuge Declared in German East Prussia
More than 100000 acres of wild forested lands near Koenigsburg in East Prussia are set aside as a permanent moose refuge. The area is undeveloped, with minimal timbering, and strict regulations ban fires tree cutting and shooting. Visitors may not leave public roads without a special permit.
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Berlin
East Prussia
Koenigsburg
Great Books- Siege of Troy Recounted in Homer
Elizabeth C. James reviews The Iliad recounting the ninth year of the Trojan War. The Greeks besiege Troy while Achilles sulks, Agamemnon quarrels over a slave girl, and Helen’s beauty fuels the conflict as Ulysses feigns madness and Iphigenia’s sacrifice is invoked.
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Troy
Homer
Achilles
Asia Minor
Agamemnon
Helen
Greece
Menelaus
Paris
Ulysses
Iphigenia
Traditional Poet Homer and His Ancient Legend
The Iliad and the Odyssey were recited every four years in Athens in the classical era. Homer is the traditional poet of these works and is inseparable from his poetry. Classical Greeks translated, wrote about, and studied his poems, teaching and analyzing them with respect to their ancient language.
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Athens
Homer
Greece
Achilles and Hector duel ends in burial plea
In a dramatic Trojan War scene Hector challenges all, Achilles refuses, Patroclus dies prompting Achilles to return to battle. Achilles defeats Hector, then, moved by Priam's plea, returns Hector's body for burial, a tale echoed by Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Achilles
Hector
Troy
Patroclus
Greece
Olympus
Priam
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Correct Nutrition by C Houston Goudiss
A guide on why meals alone do not ensure proper nutrition. It stresses feeding the body with correct portions to support growth maintenance and repair, noting rich diets can fail to meet bodily needs and good nutrition requires knowledge and effort.
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C. Houston Goudiss
East 30Th St
New York City
Diet and Health: Science Defines Daily Food Needs
Science outlines foods essential to health and peak fitness. It asserts daily energy needs vary by work, disease can arise from diet and be cured by another, growth responds to dietary quality, and aging may slow with careful food choices. The body is a working machine needing every mineral and vitamin to prevent deficiencies.
Seven factors for a balanced diet explained
The text lists seven essentials for a balanced diet: protein for tissue repair, carbohydrates for quick energy, fats as dense fuel, minerals as builders and regulators, vitamins A B C D E and G as regulators and deficiency preventers, water as the transport medium, and cellulose for normal intestinal function.
Danger in Omitting One Food Substance
The homemaker is urged to consider nutrition to ensure a husband’s efficiency and children’s birthright. The argument states daily childhood growth builds the body and faults in nourishment lead to disease and disability, making it tragically harmful to deprive the young body.
Fragmentary note on vital substances and wellbeing
A partial text discusses substances essential to health and wellbeing, implying a focus on nutrition or biological needs. The readable fragment suggests importance of maintaining balance and adequacy of these substances for the body's welfare.
Homemaker's Chart for Nutritional Balance
Homemakers are urged to request a chart that shows daily food groups and standard amounts to ensure balanced menus. It includes skeletal menus by classification to plan meals with choices from each required group and avoids misclassifying foods like dried legumes as vegetables. The chart aims to prevent high protein concentration in one meal and overly rich desserts after heavy carbohyrdate meals.
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Eaders
C. Houston
Goudiss
East 39Th Street
New York City
C. Houston Goudias
Diet guidelines for daily food energy sources
Carbohydrates should make up at least 60 percent of food energy with common sources including cereals bread potatoes and fruits. Fats should cover about 20 percent of calories from butter margarine cream egg yolk oils and dressings. A protein at each meal should come from meat poultry and related foods.
Filet Squares Crochet Pattern for Table Cloth
Crochet lovers are invited to make lacy Filet Squares for a table cloth using the easy K-stitch. Pattern 1726 provides charts directions materials and illustrations. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
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Sewing Circle
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Rose as Rent at Manheim Zion Lutheran Church
Henry William Stiegel the glassmaker built Zion Lutheran Church at Manheim Pennsylvania and donated it for a nominal rent. One red rose was to be provided yearly. Every second Sunday in June the ceremony of placing the rose on the altar is observed at Manheim.
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Henry William Stiegel
Zion Lutheran Church
Manheim
Protein completeness in foods reviewed
A nutrition note states that fish eggs cheese milk and most nuts provide complete protein. Cereals and legumes offer incomplete protein which can be complemented by the complete protein in milk.
Homemaker’s Chart Helps Balance Nutrition at Every Meal
The article emphasizes a diet rich in minerals and vitamins from protective foods like milk eggs fruits and vegetables. It promotes a Homemaker’s Chart to ensure seven food essentials are present at each meal and discusses sources of fibre water and nutrition. It includes reader questions on figs prunes vitamin A and digestibility and notes vitamin A’s importance for eye health in children and adults.
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G. L
WNU
Houston Goudiss
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