Dunes Move Across Peruvian Desert In Silent March
The dunes along the Arequipa coast shift continually driven by desolate winds. W. OS. Barclay notes their half moon shapes grow as sand climbs the backs, with annual advances near 100 yards. Watered by rare cloudbursts, the landscape features quartzite, tufa, and quartz within a weathered conglomerate bed.
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Peruvian
Geographical Journal of London
W. OS. Barclay
Pampa
Mideh
Lina
Mel- Jendo
Mollendo
Pampaun
Desert
Pacific
Arequipi
Arequipa
Witty Sparks On Prohibition And Society
A collage of jabs on prohibition, marrying men, and everyday quirks. It riffs on pulp humor and social behavior with sly quips about supply chains, labor, and distant India while closing with a playful jab at a joint effort under wartime industrial talk.
Did His Share and a Happy Home
A brief exchange contrasts happiness and a failed home, with a quip about attempting change by leaving. The dialogue notes conceit as a common but not desirable trait, advising that a touch of vanity can exist in any person.
Inventions Highlight Silk Substitute and weapons combo
A Japanese inventor created artificial silk from chrysalis oil and cellulose, claiming closeness to real silk. A Pennsylvania inventor proposed a sword pistol design with the pistol barrel inside the blade and firing mechanism in the hilt.
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Pennsylvania
Street cleaning boosts New York workers’ efficiency
Popular Science reports New York’s school of street cleaning has greatly improved efficiency of street workers. Other items note a periscopic device for rifles, global site measures, Philippine cement houses, Nuremburg tunnels for Pegnus river overflow, and the whale’s ear with acute hearing provoking dives a half mile away.
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New York
School of
Nuremburg
Pegnus
Wise and Otherwise on Life and Humor
A collection of wry maxims noting life lessons and social quirks. It observes humor in daily behavior and contrasts courage, honesty, and gender stereotypes with light, ironic tone.
Puzzling Phrase Questions from a Curious Mind
A reader asks about paradoxes and idioms pondering why a legless man can put his foot in it and how curiosity can survive while sinking funds cover floating debts in everyday speech.
Effective means to control aphids in orchards and berries
The article outlines contact sprays as the only effective control for aphids on apple, currant, gooseberry, and grape plants. It emphasizes thorough spraying, early bud spraying to kill the first brood, and using nicotine or nicotine blends with lime sulfur, arsenate of lead, or Bordeaux mixtures. Home preparation and soap or fish oil washes are discussed, along with annual bud spraying for apples and timing for currants and gooseberries.
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San Jose
Fumigate To Kill Injurous Insects In Bins And Granaries
Kansas State College entomology professor George A. Dean recommends fumigation with carbon bisulphide to destroy all insects in stored grain. Use five pounds per 1000 cubic feet at average temp, keep fire away, vent for two hours after 36 to 48 hours of fumigation, and seal cracks tightly for best results.
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George A. Dean
Kansas State Agricultural College
Soil Conditions for Successful Alfalfa Seeding
The text stresses fine pulverized soil in the top 2 3 inches and a firm subsoil to support capillary water movement. It notes failures stem from poor seed bed condition, and urges thorough tilling, weed-free surface, and good drainage with air circulation for young alfalfa stands.
Fishes Debate Life On Land In Humorous Lake Talk
A hot day prompts talking fish at the lake as Mrs Perch and Miss Bass discuss why beings live out of water. They compare breath, schooling, and wisdom, ending with a pledge to call themselves wise student fishes who travel in schools.
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Daddy
Mrs. Perch Spunshine
Mir
Miss Bass
Mrs. Perch
Mr. Perch
Tures
Sun Fish
Miss Buss
What is an abstract noun from a classroom exchange
A teacher asks Esther what an abstract noun is and she answers with a puzzled lack of knowledge. The teacher defines it as a thing you can think of but cannot touch and a student supplies a concrete example a red hot poker rather than an abstract concept.
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Esther
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Philippine Health Service
John Barleveorn
Woolly Aphis
Peach Aphis
Dean
Kansas
Mary Graham Bonner
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