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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1940
Page
6
Dr James W Barton notes that overweight people suffer higher blood pressure and greater heart workload. He explains arteries lose elasticity with age, forcing the heart to pump harder. The piece discusses midlife weight gain and its impact on cardiovascular health.
In life extension findings, Dr. H A Ley notes that weight gain elevates blood pressure, while a 5 percent weight loss lowers pressures in a 3516 person sample. Normal weight gains raise pressures less than same gains in overweight individuals, and weight loss benefits persist despite aging.
The article discusses preventing seizures with diet changes and phenobarbital, notes heredity plays a role in epilepsy, and cites a study recording brain waves in relatives of epileptics. It also answers questions about nasal growth effects on hearing and arthritis diet, emphasizing reducing starches and increasing fats or fruits and vegetables.
Readable reader notes offer Irish themed party ideas for St Patrick s day with a Paddy s pig centerpiece made from potatoes and gum drops plus facial features. Recipes include chicken salad lettuce cups green cloverleaf rolls lime pie and a method to reuse leftovers. Eleanor Howe promotes her Easy Entertaining cookbook and a 10 cent mail offer from Chicago Illinois.
Gilbert Allanson and wife hire two girls for lake island cottage expecting quiet work. The workers reveal a trick turning into a comic chase as mothers learn the two promised children are dogs. The couple laughs at the canine replacement and keeps the summer afloat.
The University of California radiation lab conducts neutron ray experiments with the cyclotron to study effects on human and vegetable cells. Drs Margaret and Warren Lewis lead the work under Ernest O. Lawrence to compare neutron and X ray impacts on malignant and normal tissue and to develop safe therapeutic use.
Several southern mills still weave oil separation mats from coarse hair of Chinese women mashed by hydraulic processes. One Memphis mill buys 2,000 heads of hair monthly for this purpose. The piece also notes Japanese sentimental rites for inanimate objects and beings, including ships, oysters, dolls, and broken needles.
Because of its high nitrogen content, most of the hogs hairs obtained in the slaughtering houses of this country are made into fertilizer.
The article notes that a greater portion of fish is utilized in manufacturing processes and products than is consumed as food. It highlights industry use in nonfood applications and references the scale of byproduct utilization in production.
The American Museum of Natural History in New York maintains a small army of live beetles tasked with cleaning the bones of animals before mounting. This natural history detail is highlighted by Collier's.
Report cites Collier's claim about the 1914 St Lawrence disaster. Heirs allegedly deposited large sums in the purser’s safe, insurers funded salvage, but the safe opened to reveal less than five percent of the claimed loss.
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