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ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICE AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 THE TRYON DAILY BULLETIN Ic per copy (The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper) lc per copy Seth M. Vining. Editor Vol. 14. Est. 1-31-28 Vol. 14. Est. 1-31-28 TRYON, N. C., Dr. Dyer Leaves Today For Bolivia, S. A. The noted typhus fever scien tist, Dr. R. Eugene Dyer, Chief « of Division of Infectious Diseases Wof the National Institute of Health, Washington, D. C., arrived in Try on Wednesday for a visit with his mother before leaving for Miami, Fla., where he will sail by air plane for La Paz, Bolivia to in augurate a public health program for the purpose of eradicating typhus fever. Dr. Dyer became quite famous several years ago when he per mitted a typhus infected flea to bite him in order to prove that the flea was a carrier of typhus germs. The doctor became ill with the disease and proved his theory. Dr. Dyer has another theory which if proved successful will ! revolutionize the public health pro gram in fighting typhus fever. tOne of the problems in fighting she disease has been the difficulty in getting serum in large enough quantities. Dr. Dyer has now found a method of producing the serum in sufficient quantities if it proves effective. Typhus fever originates with a rat. A flea from the rat bites a man. Lice on the man become in fected and bite many ether men. By the time the disease reaches the lice it is so deadly that in J dirty slum areas and encampments of soldiers and workers where there are no opportunities to wash off the lice and keep clean, people die bv the thousands. Dr. Dyer stated that typhus infected lice - Continued on Back Page i $1.50 Year in the Carolinas THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941 CURB REPORTER I don’t smoke cigarettes, and wouldn’t give one cent for all the cigarettes in the world for my personal use. I don’t have any objection to other people smoking them as the smoke doesn’t bother me. I have no hunger cr desire for them and have no actual sym pathy for a fellow who does ex cept when I think it must affec; him in the same way water does me when I am awfully thirsty. Smokers seem to enjoy and appre ciate tobacco more than any lux ury. It is a bond of fellowship be tween strangers, white and black, rich and poor, high and low. Saw a convict not long ago ask Charlie Lynch for a cigarette. Charlie has quit smoking but he under stood and gave him soome money to buy a package. Bert Leonard, who has a nephew with the Cana dian troops in England has re cieved a letter from him express ing deep appreciation for the American cigarettes. “Got a Cig arette?” seems to be the cry on many soldiers’ lips—in the bar racks, in the trenches, in the hos pitals. Cigarettes do something for them that nothing else does. It gives them comfort. Now, I have been asked by a representa tive of the Over-Seas League Tobacco Fund to collect money CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE _
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