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...half British, the rest U. S.-born, Britishrtrained. All must be good horsewomen, registered nurses, experienced in public health work. Living in nine nursing districts, they cover 700 sq. mi. of mountain land, galloping about in trim riding habits and overseas caps, fording such streams as Greasy Fork, Hell-for-Certain and Big Bullskin Creeks, spurring ahead when they hear from a cabin window the hoarse shout: ''Come on, ma'am! My woman's mighty bad." At first the mountain people were slow in accepting help from the Frontier Nurses, suspicious of such things as vaccination...
Last week Standard Oil Co. of New Fork tied up its products with religious observance much as Clicquot Club Co. (ginger ale) tied up its bottle caps with unemployment relief. It announced that a special 2? stamp tax would be placed on all Yahrzeit lamps, and a graded tax from 1? to 10? on all ritual candles. The proceeds will go to the New York Yeshivoth and Talmud Torah funds, which maintain Jewish parochial schools and rabbinical academies in the city...
...reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...gifts, Samuel Insull shook himself free of a crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express Co., dined with President John C. Eliasco of the Bank of Athens. He had a two-and-a-half-hour conference with Ery Kehaya, fork-waving president of Standard Commercial Tobacco Co. of Manhattan...
...maturer years were not without event. On one occasion, impressed with the success of Cecil Sharp and others in collecting folk songs and music in the fastnesses of Kentucky, the Carolinas and Tennessee, he set out in a buggy, equipped with music paper, a tuning fork and a phonographic recording machine, to collect the folk songs of his home State. Iowa. After a long ride he reached a farm where the daughter of the house consented to sing. He sat with the girl's mother on the piazza, waiting. The silence grew expectant. At last Aggie began to sing...