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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
3
A writer in Electrical Experimenter argues a radium dial on a watch holds immense potential. The glow comes from zinc sulfide and radium, expected to last about 8 to 10 years, but the activity could power a motor if energy release occurred in hours rather than millennia.
A reflection on how people view others with their own biases and how crossing perspectives can both correct and worsen judgment. The piece warns against easy misjudgments born from hidden biases and urges awareness of how we interpret others.
Unclear OCR text shows jumbled phrases and stray words with no coherent event or names. No identifiable persons, organizations, dates, or places are readable to summarize as a news item.
In 1900 1903 and 1905 only a single projection appeared on Mars. W H Pickering and A B E Douglass argued for clouds as the real cause, not mountains. Clouds moving and dissipating over time best explain these Mars projections per Lowell analysis.
The article describes New Zealand as the sole region without destructive predators, enabling wingless birds to survive and evolve. It highlights the kakuapa ground parrot, once winged, which lost flight due to ground feeding habits and lack of enemies, becoming more ground adapted over time.
A fragment discusses the value of Phivilostuehus pribescens and timber from shoots for use in building and telegraph poles, noting southern Louisiana profits versus northern sugar cane interests and the sugar price cited by the Hartford Courant.
The Bodleian Library and the Tower of the Five Orders in Oxford’s Old Schools quadrangle host a rising owl colony. Bodleian staff rescue young birds that land on the quad pavement and cannot fly back to their nests.
A vintage recipe describes washing rugs with four ounces white soap and four ounces boiling water, then adding five ounces glycerin and two ounces chloroform once cooled. Bottle the solution, and use one teaspoonful in tepid water to wash carpets with a flannel and soap. One wash allegedly yields brightening effects.
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