9 JULY 189 DAYS PAST Wednesday 176 DAYS TO COME Claire Eccles was knocked down with a car while crossing Wash. & 25 street in safty zone. No bones broken but bruised badly. Cleone is 44 yr old and looks like a girl yet Is a wonderful daughter & mother of six children, and a grandmother to one boy. Junior brought us some fine trout. The War is still terriable one hardly knows what to believe about it U.S. has sent troops to Iceland. CALOMEL-PLUMMERS PILLS The process for making calomel was first described in the seventeenth century in the Basilica Chymica of Oswald Crollius, where it bore the name Arcanum corallinum seu mercurius sublimatus noncorrosivus. Compound pills of antimony orginated for a formula devised by Andrew Plummer, who published his formula in 1751. The name Plummers Pills later came to be associated with the compound calomel pills of the Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia of that century. ANDREW PLUMMER (died 1756) Thursday 190 DAYS PAST JULY 10 175 DAYS TO COME mistake should be (June 12)12) Catherine Almira Hatch Smart died in Los Angeles Calif. Born Feb, 13 1859 Our daughter Avon Smarts mother in law She was a very fine type of women and we loved & admired her. Dr & I had trout dinner with Dr. Ezra & Gladys. Lithe Rich & her daughter & family Lettie Silver of N.Y. called; her son Richard ten yr old is such a cute fine boy. Wrote Mary Germans Hail Wholesale Red Captures Battle Described As Greatest of Kind in History BERLIN, July 10 (AP)-German announced officially Wednesday night the capture of 232,898 red army prisoners in what it termed the greatest material and encirclement battle in world history on the Bialystok-Minsk front, but maintained almost complete silence on the great campaign now unfolding in the east. Wednesday nights announcement recapitulated an entrapment first announced on June 29, seven days after the conflict began. OF MEDICAL HISTORY