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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1940
Page
6
Public Health physician C O Wenger urged southern plantation owners to allow treatment of their negro workers for syphilis, arguing in practical dollars and cents terms that healthy labor is profitable.
Readers with digestive troubles are urged to request a free descriptive of Excelsior Springs Mineral Water Treatments. The method has aided thousands. Send requests to the Medical Bureau Hall of Waters Excelsior Springs Missouri Box lvl for a list of relieved patients.
Annually American workers lose 168 million in goods and 100 million on medical care due to syphilis. The sum surpasses the cost of Boulder Dam projects and the 10 year nationwide fight proposed by Senator LaFollette, which faced opposition over the size of the appropriation. A recent study across twelve worker groups highlights the public health menace.
Tests show infection rates near 4 percent among workers, with 12 of 100 railway employees and 16 of 100 coal miners affected. The report argues the economic toll, including two lost workdays per worker annually, is high across 28 million men aged 18 to 50, urging better control of syphilis to improve efficiency and revenue.
Dee See spoke to the Y’s Men’s club on barbering’s progress since 1920, noting moral and sanitary advances and women began bobbing their hair in that era. He argued barbers lost retail opportunities as drug stores expanded shaving goods, and mentioned a state effort to aid barbers amid inspector oversight.
Rose Bowl game scenes feature the Trojans defeating opponents while Tennessee and Missouri see decisive losses. Bill Cunningham of Missouri contributes to the tilt as Georgia Tech edges a Tiger-lows matchup in a tense contest at Mian.
Doc Lee predicted future barber shops would place chairs in back booths and provide convenient waiting rooms in front. The talk intrigued members and sparked an open forum on a topic not previously discussed by the club.
Indian Creek pupils held a noon dinner to honor Mrs. Williams on her birthday. Guests included Audrey and Mildred Helmick Evelyn and David Mineart. Visitors Mrs. Julia Parks Mae Kern and Alice Dunbar attended.
Helen Terwilliger claims Justice Taft misquoted the oath of office when administering it to President Hoover. She says he used preserve, maintain and defend instead of preserve, protect and defend.
Homer Coulter of Peoria Illinois visits Ed Vittetoe and John Warnock homes over Christmas. Local families share Christmas visits and Sunday gatherings with relatives in Iowa City Crawfordsville Washington Wellman Cedar Rapids Des Moines Swedesburg and Harpers.
Frank Norton of Toledo wins the Burling ton Wisconsin Liars club title after a contest built on a tale about a music loving farmer who taught his sons to play hard tunes by banging corn on a cornhusking wagon bangboard.
Eight year old Patricia Hoyt lies in a Miami Florida hospital recovering from a hammer assault while asleep. Authorities question her half brother Leonard Hoyt nineteen as part of the investigation.
A London pea soup fog costs about 5 million dollars daily. A London scientist advances a camera device that could penetrate the fog to 10 miles, projecting the landscape onto a small screen once successful.
The text explains a comet consists of nucleus coma and tail. The nucleus is made of stones or dust particles. A comet grows brighter as it nears the sun and dims as it moves away.
Mrs. W. M. Matthews shows no search effort after a thief broke into her henhouse at Pilot Mountain North Carolina and stole seven chickens. The robbery left a wallet with $150 behind, the motive noted as accidental loss during the act.
An old advertisement promotes Adlerika as a gas relief remedy for stomach gas causing heart pressure. It claims one dose relieves pressure and that Adlerika cleans out both bowels with attribution to a Druggist Gho L McDaniel.
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