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...Lida Josephine Usilton of the U. S. Public Health Service, who compiled these figures, believes that there is more venereal disease proportionately in small rural communities than in big cities. She estimates that there are approximately 493,000 individuals constantly under treatment or observation for gonorrhea and 683,000 for syphilis...
Typical excerpts: "... I am a girl mobilized for social work. ... I have no time for love. . . ." ". . . My name has been engraved on the roll of honor of our factory. My wife Lida says 'Your success has been built upon my misfortunes.' I bought Lida a coat and a silk dress. Lida said 'I can't use your silk dress. I have nowhere to go.' And she threw it in my face. . . ." ". . . While I was busy with posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya...
...Tennessee mountain town. Her brother Chad lived with her; from dawn to dusk he swung a dirty hoe. Just as he had about got the farm paid for, in came City-Man Lynn Clayton who had inherited some deserted coal mines next door. The outlander, financed by his friend Lida Grant who came with him to watch his operations, planned to make coal-bricks out of the deserted coal-dust, sell it to the city's poor. His meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes off the company's property. Chad hung on. Then Clayton...
...breaking point, when everybody's suspicions were mutual, Lida Grant, worried lest murder materialize, set fire to Clayton's coal-sheds. After the bonfire Glen Hazard's native sons drove them both out of town. Thelma returned to the Tennessee mountain peace with a sorrow for the city-man in her heart, but only Chad and Vesper on her hands...
...want horses, horses all the way. Lida L. Fleitmann (Mrs. John Van S. Bloodgood, M. F. H.) gives them to you from primitive times to the present, in a 372-page, profusely illustrated book (The Horse in Art; William Farquhar Payson...