Likens Modern Life to Piecework in Factory
Dr Mary Dunning Rose, president of the Women's Medical Society of New York, compares modern life to factory piecework. She urges more sleep for women, notes restaurant dining relates to lower city death rates, and advocates more women doctors despite longer training.
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Mary Dunning Rose
Women’s Medical Society
State of New York
New York City
Board of Health
Rose
Margery Rex
The
New York Journal
Gentle Darwin Saintliness Noted by Biographer Maude Royden
A quotation from A Maude Royden in The Friendship of God highlights Darwin’s courteous, patient replies to religious critics. Darwin’s willingness to “assume the best” and respond gently is described as having a saintly quality.
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Darwin
A. Maude Royden
God
Old Mourning Customs in Ancient Jewish Practice
The article details traditional Jewish mourning rites including eye closing by kin, bathing and anointing the corpse, lay in spices, swathing in linen, and tomb burial. Mourners show wear black, go bareheaded and barefoot, cover mouths, keep silent, sit in ashes, and hire singers for funeral songs as sepulchers with rock niches hold the deceased.
Children Grow Faster In The Fall Study Finds
New York reports a study by the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor showing children aged four to thirteen gain more weight and height from August through December than any other period. Boys account for 55.8 percent and girls 50.8 percent of yearly growth in that span, with the late summer and early fall as the peak. The report urges physicians teachers and nutrition workers to track gains over three to six month periods to judge development.
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New York
New York Association
Laconia Aims For Coastwise Autopilot via Gyro Pilot
The Cunard liner Laconia becomes the first British ship fitted with a gyro pilot controlled by a gyro compass. Repeaters on the bridge and wireless direction finders feed changes to an electric motor that adjusts the steering wheel to keep the ship on course, promising hundreds of miles of autonomous sailing without a helmsman.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Jury of His Peers Delivers Humorous Vote of Confidence
Ed Pendleton Kansas legislator from Franklin County served on a United States court jury at Leavenworth. He joked he had never served on a jury before and questioned the jokes about jury quality. When asked how it would feel to be tried by a jury, he quipped he would not want to be tried by one, even if he were a juror.
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Ed Pendleton
Kansas
Franklin County
United States
Leaverworth
Pendleton
Kansas City Star
Kidneys Act Bad Take Salts For Health Advice
A health column links backache and dull kidney discomfort to acid buildup from foods and urges relief by Jad Salts, mixed with lemon juice and lithia. It advises consulting a physician, drinking soft water, and yearly kidney checkups.
Winning Glider Built of Scrapped Wire and Tin
Koenigsberg Germany. Ferdinand Schulz built a heavier than air glider from broom sticks wire and tin scraps. He flew at Rossitten for eight hours forty two minutes eight seconds setting a world record. He was a school teacher in East Prussia and noted he could have flown longer with better preparation. He missed the watch moment when told of his record by surprise.
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Koenigsberg
Germany
Ferdinand Schulz
Schul
East Prussia
Rossitten
Schulz
Sage and Sulphur Compound Restores Natural Hair Color
An old time beauty remedy promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to darken gray hair naturally. Grandmothers used it to keep hair glossy, with a simple application using a dampened comb or brush.
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Wyeth
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