Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Widow Serum...
Certain vineyardists in western Colorado, parts of Utah and northern California last year were obliged to let their entire crop of grapes rot because pickers were afraid of the black widow spiders which infested the vines. In some regions throughout the Midwest black widows also got into the tomato vines, with the same result...
Last week Professor Fred Edmund D'Amour, University of Denver zoologist and physiologist, sent the cheery message to vineyardists and tomato croppers that he has devised a serum against the black widow's poison. The poison causes spasms, high fever, nausea, vomiting, unconsciousness, occasionally death. Treatment has been to relieve pain by narcotics, to relieve spasms by hot baths, to support strength with whiskey...
...inventing his serum, Professor D'Amour mildly poisoned rats with small doses of black widow venom. Eventually the rats became immune to the venom. Serum from the blood of the rats cured a vineyard worker three hours after a black widow...
...money for Holden Chapel was not given by Mr. Holden in his will, as you stated in your article, but by his widow and daughters, through the exertions of Thomas Hutchinson, H. C. '27, later governor of Massachusetts. The money, 400 pounds sterling, as Mrs. Holden had remarked to Hutchinson at the time of the gift, was not sufficient to complete the Chapel, and so, after the foundations, walls, roofing and plastering had used up the funds, a year elapsed before sufficient money could be raised to finish the interior woodwork, pews etc. Whether Mrs. Holden gave the extra funds...