28 Nov 1940
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
1
The article describes early TV special effects by a dedicated team. It highlights mechanical props, wired web frames, and tiny wheels shaping plausible scenes. A featured image shows a control board and a technician triggering lights to simulate bombs on a munitions train.
Dr James W Barton discusses the value of early mental health screening, noting insurance exams can reveal mental defects early. He citesCarl Landis and James Page on 60,000 Americans in mental institutions and one in twenty facing future hospitalization, but six of ten patients entering mental hospitals are cured and return to work. Early treatment yields best results, whether traditional or new methods like insulin or metrazol shock. The rise in mental illness partly reflects longer life expectancy.
Dr H M Keith in the Canadian Medical Association Journal notes that a fat rich ketogenic diet producing diacetic acid in urine can treat epilepsy. In 160 patients over one to nine years, 36 percent remained seizure free, 21 percent improved, 43 percent not benefited. Diet must be rigidly controlled with a three to one fat to starch ratio and include outdoor exercise and rest.
Question and answer brief discusses liver extracts for anaemia and white fingernail lines in a healthy 13 year old. Experts note liver extracts can help anemia, while white lines likely indicate growth after illness and may relate to iron intake and diet with milk cheese leafy greens and oranges.
Washington reports the National Council of Inventors rallying top engineers and lay volunteers to devise new wartime tools for the army and navy. Inspired by Edison era boards, their efforts spark a flood of defense ideas, including sound‑based gun location devices and wireless controlled bombs, with a focus on practical weapons advances.
Louis Wehrle of Fort Wayne Indiana an American volunteer ambulance driver says he lost 66 pounds during three months confinement in a German prison camp at Hoyerswerda near Dresden. He and Murray Shipley of Cincinnati were captured in northern France in mid May by German parachute troops. Shared camp with 6000 French officers 20000 other French prisoners and 4000 Belgians. Food was poor but treatment fair with ersatz coffee porridge corn meal and cabbage soup rather than meat.
Mars the dog, one of the few to face federal charges, is freed after a hearing before Swampscott selectmen. Postmaster Wilkinson alleged Mars chased and bit mailmen, but the board praised the dog and voted complete exoneration.
In the Green Forest Granny Fox leads Bowser the Hound to Old Man Coyote’s den in a bid to derail chicken raids. Farmer Brown’s Boy investigates a large canine footprint and hair, suspecting a prairie wolf. He resolves to trap the culprit while sparing Redy Fox if possible, as Bowser alerts his master.
A report to the American Chemical Society notes that Peruvian Indians copied a soybean broth recipe from Shenn-yng’s Chinese book written around 300 B C. The dish is claimed as a fertility guarantee and remains a traditional preparation.
In Omaha Judge Lawrence Welch of the compensation court ruled that Mrs. Ruth Noraiki an is permanently disabled by hysterical aphonia and may collect about 9535 in compensation if she speaks only in a whisper for the next 60 years.
Bright nail polish visually shortens long fingers and a wide white margin at the nail tip helps balance proportions. This grooming guidance is featured in a Western Newspaper Union release.
Washington D C The interior department announced Bluebeards Castle Hotel at Charlotte Amalie Virgin Islands will be leased for three years starting December 1 Secretary Ickes seeks a lessee with a $5000 bond and other financial obligations The hotel features a Caribbean view palm shaded terraces copper screens parquet floors and running water It paid property tax of 1025 last year on a 190000 valuation }
About 11 000 Allied prisoners are quartered at Meaux camp near Paris under French management with German supervision. The camp is called a model camp for cleanliness and orderly operation though soap is scarce. Prisoners wear worn uniforms. a British aviator stood out in a freshly washed shirt. A French colonial receiving soap and a towel wept with joy as parcels were delivered.
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