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ROSALIE Vol. 0 I J.J 1898 No The ParU News, 7, 1977 3 Ice eater should have checkup WAR NEWS The Rosalie Courier was beating Spanish American War drums and the Bogata Democrat featured a dog-killing at Johnstown. (Staff Photo) '30' FOR headstone in the Smith Cemetery near Rosalie marks the grave of the editor of the Rosalie Courier. (Staff Photo) DEAR DR. LAMB My wife eats a lot of ice.

Do you think it would hurt her in any way? DEAR READER The ice won't, but the reason she is eating lots of ice might be important. People sometimes develop a habit of eating large amounts of strange things, including clay, laundry starch and ice. There are medical reports of some people eating over four pounds of ice a day. Such strange eating habits are associated with iron deficiency. Usually, if that is the problem, replenishing the body stores with iron will correct the problem.

We call this condition pica. It is of medical importance when children are picking off old paint containing lead from old buildings and getting lead poisoning. If nothing else I think you should have your wife at least take a daily vitamin tablet that contains iron. She may not be anemic and still have an iron deficiency. When this is the cause of strange eating habits, once 1898 Rosalie paper tells of war ByEDBRYSON BOGATA "President McKinley has signed a call for 125,000 volunteers." "There is much excitement in Porto Rico." "Australia wants to fight Spain." What is all this, anyway? This is a sample of news items on page one of the Rosalie Courier, Friday, April The time-worn copy of the tabloid, edited by W.

A. Crooks at Rosalie in Red River County, is the cherished property of Miss Edna Howison and has a prized place among her souvenirs in her home here. It is obvious that the news items concerned the Spanish American War and were gleaned largely from other publications. ANOTHER item stated that "Lots of married men are more afraid of yellow fever and smallpox than they are of Spanish soldiers." And still another reported that "An extra guard has been placed at the White House to protect President McKinley." But even though war news dominated page one, Editor Crooks found room for such items as: "Plug tobacco prices are advancing." "Brewers are raising a roar over the proposed $2 per barrel tax on beer." OTHER page one eye- catchers were professional cards. These included: H.

L. Howison, practicing physician, Bogata. W. J. Evans, physician and surgeon, Bogata.

Dr. J. P. Martin, Rosalie. Robert Jones, physician and surgeon, Rosalie.

Dr. J. C. Foster, Clarksville. Inside, in the editorial column, Editor Crooks had supported Jos.

D. Sayers for governor. He also let readers know they could subscribe for the Rosalie Courier published each Friday, for 50 cents a year cash in advance, or $1 on the first of October. A LATER copy of the newspaper is owned by Bogata Mayor W. C.

Barnard. Published December 20, 1901, the edition reflects the return to page one advertising after the war. The page is nearly all ads, including Lassiter Dickson, Bogata dealers in drugs, chemicals, patented and proprietary medicines, house paints and also staple and fancy groceries, plus hardware, horse collars and whang leather. Other advertisers included the Marable Hardware in Clarksville, the W. B.

Speir Blacksmith and Woodshop, Rosalie, McCall's Magazine, Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic, and so on. News items reported that Italy Precinct in Ellis County had gone prohibition and Rosalie Hebert had stepped on a live wire in Lake Charles, and was killed. INSIDE ads included a restaurant on Depot Street, Clarksville, with meals on short notice at 25 cents and Sam Burrus as proprietor. Bogata Racket Store was offering "the things the people need," such as dry goods, shoes, pants, groceries and tinware. The ad stated that "The goods you will get will be as cheap as the cheapest and the money we get for them will help your humble servant, J.

E. Horner, agent." Miss Howison also has a copy of the Bogata Democrat, published Jan. 11, 1907. T. Theo Thompson was editor and W.

R. Baxter was manager. The five-column paper was priced at 50 cents a year, presumably cash in advance. News items included a dog killing at Johntown following a report that a mad dog had gone through and bitten several local dogs. Page one display ads included F.

F. Marable and Bro. at Clarksville, and S.H. Bell of Deport. APPARENTLY assuming that everyone already knew most of the local news, the newspapers concentrated on state, national and foreign reports.

After all, that was before the day of radio, and during the heyday of small telephone exchanges when local news was broadcast to listening-in-ears. the iron deficiency is corrected, the person may have an aversion to the food that was once an obsession. Your wife may then not care for ice at all. I am sending you The Health Letter number 4-4, Iron and Anemia, to give you other information on iron Others who want this information can send 50 cents with a long, stamped, self-addressed envelope for it. Write to me in care of this newspaper, P.O.

Box 1551, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019. DEAR IMI. LAMB Yesterday my sister offered my mother some wine she had made. I told my mother shouldn't drink wine when she is taking medicine.

In a rude manner my sister told me to shut up and my mother said the little medicine she takes doesn't make any difference. My mother takes 15 mg. of Triavil a day. She has been suffering from severe psychoneurosis for over -10 years. The first part of this year she had a complete mental breakdown.

Her doctor told me she should not drink alcohol while she is taking tranquilizers. I have heard that alcohol prevents medicine from doing its job. Is that right? How much alcohol can a person drink while taking medicine without doing any harm? Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

trigger an undesirable patients realize the im- reaction as I mentioned in portance of following in- reference to Antabuse. Its structions. Failure to do so action in this regard is may have more serious helpful in forcing an consequences in some in- alcoholic to not touch a stances than just failure to single drink. obtain the maximum I often wonder how many benefits from treatment. Pre-homecoming events set at PJC One more item from 1898 Rosalie Courier: the "We are blessed with musicians in the city.

Mr. Marks has the autoharp, Mr. Bob Sloan the violin, L. W. Lassiter the mandoline, C.

M. Patton the jews harp." What a treat it must have been to hear L. W. Lassiter come down on that MANDOLINE. Metric system The liter: still good to last drop (EIGHTH OF A SERIES) By Science Research Associates When the United States finally and totally converts to the metric system, the quart will be replaced by the liter.

And very few people will notice the difference. The liter is just a little more than the quart, and so prices for a liter of milk will probably be a little more too, because you are paying for more milk. On the other hand, the shopper should benefit from the liter in terms of price for a number of different reasons. There could be more uniformity in packaging, and so lower packaging costs. Certainly it will aid the comparison shopper, who will be dealing in tenths, hundredths and thousandths of a liter instead of 32 ounces to the quart.

For the shopper, the mathematics will be easier, dividing or multiplying by 10 to find the real relationship to his dollars, dimes and pennies. The liter is defined for everyday use as the volume of a cube that measures a decimeter on a side. NOW THK TOWN mm nRKIlDKD SUNDOWN THE LITER, like other metric measures, is modified by prefixes. A kiloliter is 1,000 liters, about the amount of water in a portable wading pool. The milliliter, one-thousandth of a liter, is about one-fifth of a teaspoonful.

To get the idea, a large paint can contains about four liters, a gasoline truck might carry 30 kiloliters or 30,000 liters, a large trash can holds 80 liters, and an average bath uses about 450 liters of water. Some manufacturers already have begun to convert. The major soft drink makers now market one- and-two-liter bottles and others are following. It wilt probably be several years before metrics really come into play in-the kitchen. Some recently published cookbooks and magazines give recipes in both metric and customary units.

Other cookbooks have added conversion tables to their new editions. ONE CHICAGO cookbook publisher is printing both metric and customary measures and expects to do so for the foreseeable future. He says that new cooks will adapt more quickly to metrics than will old cooks. But he admits the time is a long way off before metrics will be used exclusively. Still the beginnings are there.

Corning Glass Co. is making measuring cups with ounces on one side and milliliters on the other. spoons for milliliters are available in some stores. Corning also has a cooking guide with both metric and common measures. Actually, the cook is in pretty good shape when it comes to following a metric recipe.

There will be appropriately designed measuring cups and spoons. The metric cup or as it has been suggested, "metricup" holds 250 milliliters, a little larger than the standard U.S. cup which holds 237 milliliters. IN FACT, U.S. citizens who have lived abroad say there is no great difficulty in adapting to metric recipes.

It's just a case of doing what the Romans do. Many European recipes give ingredients by weight, although cooks the world over simply estimate the amounts and season to taste. Indeed, restaurateurs and others who cook for large numbers of people often measure by weight simply because it is easier. Whatever else happens in the metric kitchen, a pinch will remain a pinch, and a dash will remain a dash. One of the advantages of metric units is that many of the measurements relate directly one to the other.

Just as a liter represents a cubic decimeter, so do volume and capacity measures relate. THAT MIGHT not make much difference to the cook, but it can make a difference to refrigerator manufac- turers or people who transport large quantities of dry materials or liquids. The metric system is just that a system, and one that relates in regular terms to other parts of the system. And if you need corn- some of the subdivisions are, consider: a milliliter is somewhat smaller than a sugar cube; there are about six ordinary teacups in a liter; a typical bucket will hold seven to eight liters, and there are about three-and-a- parisons to help you see what half liters in a gallon. PJC plans classes on how to get a job DEAR READER Don't be upset with your sister.

She probably doesn't understand the problem. I must warn people, though, that when the doctor says no alcohol it means NO ALCOHOL! It is not just a question of whether the alcohol will prevent the medicine from working effectively. In some instances it causes the medicine to be far stronger than intended. Thus a person taking sleeping pills and alcohol may get a combined effect that is far worse than the same amount of either would have been. That is how some individuals using the combination end up as suicides.

To take another example Flagyl a medicine used commonly in treatment of women's infections reacts chemically with alcohol somewhat like Antabuse used in treating alcoholics, and may cause nausea, vomiting and shock with circulatory collapse. In some cases the combination can be life threatening. Triavil is a combination medicine containing Elavil. Elavil acts with alcohol in the same way that barbiturates do and the combination can be dangerous. How much is dangerous? That depends on what medicine the person is taking and how much.

In some instances even a very small amount of alcohol can Paris Junior College students and faculty members will be getting ready for Saturday's Homecoming by participating in several "Campus Capers" planned this week to involve current students in Homecoming activity. The PJC Student Association has set Wednesday as "Hat Day" when those on campus may wear the hat of their choice, Thursday as "T-Shirt Day" and Friday as "Socks and Sneaker Day." Voting for the 1977 Homecoming Queen will be held Wednesday and Thursday in the Student Center. The five nominees are Debbie Adkins of Paris, Glenna Duff of Blossom, Linda Pierce, Donie Powell and Leslie Spruell, all of Paris. The queen will be crowned at halftime activities during the PJC Homecoming basketball game Saturday night. On Friday night, various campus organizations will join the Student Association in sponsoring booths at a carnival in the snack bar of the Student Center for all students and former students.

The carnival will be from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Also scheduled Friday at 7:30 p.m. is the complete version of a readers theatre presentation written by Charles Beachley III. The readers theatre will be performed in the new experimental theatre in the basement of the Administration Building. A shortened version of the work on American presidents will be given during Saturday's Homecoming program.

Also, the PJC Student Association will sponsor a dance following Saturday's basketball games. Activities of Homecoming Day on Saturday at PJC include the dedication of new chimes at DeShong Chapel at 10 a.m.; registration and coffee from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Student Center; informal luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the Student Center cafeteria, and special Homecoming program at 1 p.m.

in the Theater for the Performing Arts, Administration (Main) Building. Call us for the latest cuts 8. styles Donna Crockett-Beverly Proffer Reithie Frazierowner 2280 Loop 286 7850115 1ECHH1SCDPE and TECHNICOLOR MIMOSA FILMS PRODUCTION Released by CFM Three classes on "How to Get a Job and Keep It" will be sponsored by the Paris Junior College Continuing Education Division beginning Tuesday, Feb. 22, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 110 of the PJC Natural Sciences Center.

Mrs. Don (Vicki) Oglesby, coordinator of special proj ects for PJC, will be the instructor. Fee is $10 for the three lessons. In the course, Mrs. Oglesby will teach procedures, requirements and rules for getting and keeping a job.

Those taking the course woll learn to locate job opportunities, properly complete application forms, prepare for interviews, and understand the personal traits and work habits necessary to maintain and advance in a lob. Films will be shown in the course, and students will play roles to learn about interview situations and problems which may arise on the job. Reservations for the course must be made with the PJC Continuing Education Office, 785-7661, extension 145. Pizza inn AMERICA FAVORITE PIZZA NOW QfUAUTONElS "CUSTOM PERSONAL EAR MAICO HEARING AID SERVICE D. HUTCMIN1 1MMX NW Now Give Groan Stamps WNh The Of And Fwldlnr Eft Jw.

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