Thompson appoints new health director at last council meeting
The council approved the appointment of Dr J T Thompson to succeed the late Dr Harry Sitworth as health officer. The mayor’s selection was received and filed after a motion to approve failed for lack of a second. Nurses urged stronger enforcement of contagious disease regulations and better care for indigent children. The Social Welfare League offered to assist with treatment records and suggested public health oversight for such cases.
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J. T. Thompson
Harry W. Sitworth
A. E. Gnagy
Council
Board of Health
Leon A. Link
Della Darling
Marie James
Helena Hughes
Social Welfare League
Hughes
Welfare League
League
Public Health Department
Des Moines Register to be edited by Iowa students
Twenty five members of the Daily Iowan staff from the University of Iowa will travel to Des Moines to edit the Des Moines Register for the April 11 issue. The advance desk editors and department heads depart today, with the rest leaving after Easter vacation begins. Featured editors include Hazel Samuelson and Elizabeth Sinn.
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Towa City
Daily Iowan
University of Iowa
Des Moines
Des Moines Register
Hazel Samuelson
Iowa City
Elizabeth Sinn
Manning
Bivin J. Tilton
Towa
City editors to join trip for nine reporters
The list of associate editors and copy-readers includes Leslie G Moeller Spencer Maurice Colling Fort Dodge Dorothy Wilson Mason City Philip Adler Davenport Smith Manly Jocelyn Wallace Iowa Falls Elizabeth Brown Sioux Falls Mildred Augustine Ladora Paul C Smith Rock Rapids Kenneth McDonald Iona City. Nine reporters will be taken on the trip.
Bankers' Lite Radio to Mark WHO Anniversary Night
WHO the Bankers' Lite Radio station in Des Moines celebrates its first anniversary with a 12 hour twilight to dawn program from 6 p m Wednesday to 6 a m Thursday. Over 800 guests from station alumni officials and citizens will gather at Hotel Wort for a banquet after which artists will perform. Souvenirs including chewing gum silk stockings and radio sets will be distributed as fans communicate with the station via a special Western Union wire.
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WHO
Bankers’ Lite Radio
Des Moines
Hotel Wort Des Moines
Bankers’ Lita Company
Western Union
Bankers' Life Station Delivers Early Waterloo Radio Reports
Messages filed at the radio station ensure Waterloo fans hear the program within a minute of transmission, keeping listeners among the first to report reception.
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Bankers’ Life
Waterloo
One Rat Per Person in America Says Professor
Philadelphia April 7. Prof Henry H Donaldson of the Wistar Institute estimates the U S rat population at 120 000 000 about equal to the human population A single pair can yield 3 800 in 16 months and a theoretical chart by Prof G G Chambers shows potential growth to two quintillion after ten years, though real conditions curb such expansion.
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Philadelphia
United States
Henry HH. Donaldson
Wistar Institute
Donaldson
G. G. Chambers
University of Pennsylvania
Chambers
Cloud Digger Forecasts Mixed Weather Amidst Quirk
Packerville Conn April 7 The Cloud Digger made his semiannual weather prediction saying heat will arrive this summer but not overly hot with June 15 to 22 particularly warm and storms with hail in July and August. he claims his identity is kept secret and mocks the Weather Bureau noting past disasters and earthquakes.
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Packerville
Conn
Ohio
Iowa
Points
Galveston
California
Mount Pelee
Jamaica
Kingston
Cloud Digger
Weather Bureau
Medical Help by Radio Keeps Ship Doctor Busy
Dr Erskine Gray of the Cunard liner Antonia treated sailors by radio on the last voyage from New York to Plymouth. Four times daily for five days he prescribed for a badly injured Bosworth crewman, then diagnosed pneumonia in the Antinous captain and treated him for three days. Other minor cases from distant ships were managed remotely.
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Plymouth
Eng
Erskine Gray
Cunard
Antonia
New
York
Antinous
Gray
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